conservatism (n.) is the condition of men when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious - all men are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Conservatism

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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.' Mark Twain. The same point was made, if more eloquently, by Leo Rosten: 'A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism. Craig Bruce

Conservatism is the pause on the last movement.

is a fellow standing athwart history yelling stop.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.'Our Mission Statement' in National Review (19 November 1955).

defines itself in terms of what it opposes.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.' George Will

is the condition of men when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious - all men are conservatives after dinner.

Men "when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner."

is what man becomes when he is least vigorous, or most luxurious; after dinner, or before taking his rest: when he is sick or aged.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest: when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused: when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

is always marked in its argument by a certain meanness, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined With a certain superiority in its fact.

is ever more timorous and narrow; it disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

On the other hand, conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

is a form of old age: rest, appropriation, inertia; not newness, not the way onward.

We call it by many names—fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are rest, conservatism, appropriation, inertia; not newness, not the way onward.

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