Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let’s make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is […]
Conservative Quotes
Liberals believe government should take people’s earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people’s earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one’s property to give to another, the debate […]
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried.
Everybody is in doubt about whether President Johnson is a conservative progressive or a progressive conservative, and he is in clover.
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
Conservatives haven’t had a new idea since they began purchasing women in lieu of clubbing them.
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the corner – stone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.
Name me a conservative idea that is newer than five thousand years.
