“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.”
Edward Abbey

“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”
John Stuart Mill

“Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.”
William E. Gladstone

“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.”
Leo C. Rosten

“A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.”
Alfred E. Wiggam

“What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
Abraham Lincoln

“A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
Woodrow Wilson

“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.”
George H. W. Bush

“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.”
Frank Rizzo

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
Elbert Hubbard