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

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. – Mark Twain

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Futility
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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

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Prison
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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain

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Mind
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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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Conservatism

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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Conservatism

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

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Conservatism

I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. – John Maynard Keynes

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Conservatism

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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. – William Congreve

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Anger

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway

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strength

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. – Alan Perlis

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Computers

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone whos handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. – Rand Paul

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Government