Conservative Talk

Famous quotes containing the words conservative and/or talk:

“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)

“We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)