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John Kenneth GalbraithThe modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

—  John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist

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H.L. MenckenPuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

—  H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic

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Eleanor RooseveltOf course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

—  Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president

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Douglas AdamsAnything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

—  Douglas Adams, 1952-2001, British Sci-Fi writer

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Benjamin DisraeliI am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

—  Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister

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

—  Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945]

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Eric HofferLove-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

—  Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher

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

—  Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English thinker

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Martin Luther KingWhen you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

—  Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement

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Elbert HubbardA conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

—  Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer

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Woodrow WilsonA conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

—  Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, American President [1913-1921]

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Arthur ClarkeIf we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

—  Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer

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William JamesWhen a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new’.

—  William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher

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Kin HubbardSome fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

—  Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist

Gustave FlaubertBe regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

—  Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer

Marcel AchardThe one who has never lost his mind is the one who had no mind to lose.

—  Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright

Erica JongPeople always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

—  Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer

Hermann HesseThe bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

H.L. MenckenThe great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

—  H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic

Nicolas Gomez DavilaAnguish over the decline of civilization is the affliction of a conservative. The leftist cannot lament the disappearance of something of which he is ignorant.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

Ambrose BierceConservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

—  Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer

Thomas SowellOne of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

—  Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker




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