Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Conservative Quotes
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.
I remember reading, at an early age, Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. The hero of that book is Mr. Phileas Fogg, a Frenchman’s notion of an English Gentleman: taciturn, solitary, obsessively punctual, living his life according to a strict routine – in short, anal-retentive in the extreme. At the beginning of the […]
A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy. (On Robert Peel’s government)
