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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What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. – Gail Sheehy

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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because its the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained. – Gerda Lerner

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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