Conservative Quote by Leo Rosten Download Open image “A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.” — Leo Rosten ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conservative Politics
A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather. — John Howard Copy Share Image
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington,… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are. — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What… — Wayne Wonder Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image