Words of Inspiration for these troubled times

[ck4829]

"What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
- Abraham Lincoln

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

"The only truly new ideas has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way of redistributing the wealth upward toward those who already have more than they know what to do with, and (2) creationism, which is a parallel idea for redistributing ignorance out from its fundamentalist strongholds to those who know more than they need to."
- Barbara Ehrenreich

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."
- Elbert Hubbard

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
- FDR

"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

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
- John Stuart Mill

"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
- Leo C. Rosten

"Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear."
- William Gladstone

[Anakin Skywalker]

1. How True!

[Tux]

2. True

[etherealtruth]

3. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful (n/t)

[kliljedahl]

4. Somebody's got a Bartletts's

Thanks for the quotes. Very nice, all relevant.

[BuyingThyme]

5. Conservatism is fascism's brand name.

Walter C. James

[bonito]

6. Yes, but another divide and conquer tactic. n/t.

[jedr]

7. When Truman was ask by a 9 yr old boy ;

what the difference between Republicans and Dem's he answered:..Dem's are people who help people who need a little help. Republicans are people who help people who don't need anymore damn help!

[October]

8. Welcome to DU, jedr

Great quote!

:hi: