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All great peoples are conservative. (Bierce Ambrose)
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. (Bierce Ambrose)
A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. (Bierce Ambrose)
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. (Bierce Ambrose)
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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. (Bierce Ambrose)
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. (Bierce Ambrose)
I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. (Bierce Ambrose)
What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried? (Bierce Ambrose)
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory -- to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served. (Bierce Ambrose)
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. (Bierce Ambrose)
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. (Bierce Ambrose)
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. (Bierce Ambrose)
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. (Bierce Ambrose)
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship. (Bierce Ambrose)
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. (Bierce Ambrose)
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will. (Bierce Ambrose)
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. (Bierce Ambrose)
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. (Bierce Ambrose)
A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed. (Bierce Ambrose)
All reactionaries are paper tigers. (Bierce Ambrose)
I'm actually quite conservative. (Bierce Ambrose)
Conservative - a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. (Bierce Ambrose)
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