Conservative

Famous quotes containing the word conservative:

“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

“I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)