Conservatives Quotes

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.