Logo
Quote by Mark Twain
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The ra

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

Other quotes by Mark Twain

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

Category:
Integrity
Author
Mark Twain
Read Quote

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

Category:
Prison
Author
Mark Twain
Read Quote

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. – Mark Twain

Category:
great
Author
Mark Twain
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Conservatism
category

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

Category:
Conservatism

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

Category:
Conservatism

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. – Mark Twain

Category:
Conservatism

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

Category:
Conservatism

Random Quotes

Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? – Jim Carrey

Category:
Happiness

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous. – Proverb

Category:
Men

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

Category:
Miscellaneous

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. – Harlan Coben

Category:
Happiness