Conservatism Quote by B. H. Liddell Hart

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of…

— Mark Twain

It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.

— John Maynard Keynes

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

— Pierre Trudeau

Every new idea is to challenge old. It also arises from the confusion and occasionally decide to get more ideas are wrong

— Mak_786

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.

— Ted Lieu

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

— John Maynard Keynes

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us…

— Anonymous

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

— Edwin Land