Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Conservatives

All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.
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A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill (1806–73) English Philosopher, Economist

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator, Writer

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.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chinese Statesman

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) English Economist

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused; when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
Gail Sheehy (1936–2020) American Writer, Journalist

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96) American Abolitionist, Author

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies (1913–95) Canadian Novelist, Playwright, Essayist

That man’s the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet

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