Liberal Conservative

Famous quotes containing the words liberal and/or conservative:

“If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)