Conservative Politician

Famous quotes containing the words conservative and/or politician:

    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.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    a politician is an arse upon
    which everyone has sat except a man.
    —E.E. (Edward Estlin)