"A conservative is a man who just..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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“One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”
“I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'”
“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
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“Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.”
“Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.”
“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”
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“Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?”
“A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.”
“...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”