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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 - 1924)

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt, US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 - 1975)

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
- Robert Frost, US poet (1874 - 1963)

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
- Robert Anton Wilson

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 - 1881)

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 - 1881)