Quote by Mark Twain
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the cons

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

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In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. – Mark Twain

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All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – Mark Twain

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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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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations. – Henry Kissinger

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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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Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. – Kin Hubbard

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Peace is purchased from strength. Its not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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