When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Conservative Quotes
In South Africa, we call it apartheid. In Nazi Germany, we’d call it fascism. Here in the United States, we call it conservatism.
He (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) was an aristocrat and a conservative. He did not prefer, he said, a world with a hundred million bores in it to one with ten. The fewer the people who do not contribute beauty or thought, the better. He had little sympathy with the sufferings and failure of mankind, and […]
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that “ancient institution” the old one.
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
If you doubt that it is stinky personality that is the driving force behind conservative politics, look back to your pre-political youth. A dollar to a doughnut everyone of those childhood friends and acquaintances who was an asshole then is a conservative today.
If a man is too right he can’t be too radical; if he is wrong, he can’t be too conservative.
It’s really weird when conservatives enjoin us to all have a national discussion about blowjobs, but don’t want the same concerning race.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Conservatives are much like paleontologists. They dig around in prehistoric garbage heaps and anything they discover, they define as a new find.
