The best Quotes about Conservatives

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors... because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

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It's in our Nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable... but will the outcome always be good? I guess that will depend on how we approach it.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. There aren't any good, brave causes left.

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

You're in politics. You know that no one can claw their way to the top without getting a little dirt under their fingernails.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

In politics, you need a feeling for what's possible and what's reasonable.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

A true initiation never ends.

It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

For myself I know that, as long as I can summarize my experience in words, I would certainly not make any music about it.