A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

—Alfred E. Wiggam

More quotations tagged with “conservatives”

I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.

—Woodrow Wilson

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

—Robert Anton Wilson

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

—Hannah Arendt

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11 Jul 2015 Added