Liberal Conservative

Famous quotes containing the words liberal and/or conservative:

“In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,—because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)