Some views on Conservatives

by noted people

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), 'Notebook,' 1935

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - )

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

Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo C. Rosten

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)