Century Quote by Paul Begala Download Open image “Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.” — Paul Begala ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare 12Th 12Th Century Century Conservatives Conservatives Finest Europe Finest Mind Psychology Yes Conservatives
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first… — Richard White Copy Share Image
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human existence. On… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
If my wife hears one more report that I'm joining Hillary's campaign I'm going to have to go in the Pundit Protection Program. — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image