Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

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.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world, and never will.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

All great peoples are conservative.

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.

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.

What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?

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.