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

Other quotes by Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

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Conformity
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Man was made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain

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God
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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. – Mark Twain

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Gambling
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Conservatism
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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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Conservatism

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

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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

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Conservatism

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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Conservatism

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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get. – Confucius

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Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us. – Thomas Paine

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God

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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Anger

I enjoy collecting quotations. When I find a choice one I pounce on it like a lepidopterist. My day is made. When I lose one because I did not copy it out at once I feel bereft. – R.I. Fitzhenry, preface to The David & Charles Book of Quotations, September 198

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