A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has neve

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

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

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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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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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There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. – Stephen Carter

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