To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and are so stupid they don't even know it. All that is basically required is acceptance of what exists. ~ Colin Welch
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will. ~ Mark Twain
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all for fear of being carried off their feet. The prospect really does frighten me that they may finally become so engrossed in a cowardly love of immediate pleasures that their interest in their own future and in that of their descendants may vanish, and that they will prefer tamely to follow the course of their destiny rather than make a sudden energetic effort necessary to set things right. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing external to you has any power over you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson