Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as di

Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce

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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

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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

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. – Harold Rosenberg

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That mans the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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