Elbert Hubbard Quotes
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard, 1868-1930, Caricaturist & Writer, Attributed
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Until the end of Harry Truman’s presidency, republicans and other conservatives tended to accuse democratic presidents and other leaders are being too aggressive and belligerent in foreign policy. Republicans tended to oppose defense spending and a strong military. After WWII the isolationist republicans tended to become hawks. They favored extensive military spending and an aggressive foreign policy. Since then, they have generally attacked democrats as being too weak. President Lyndon Johnson was very much intimidated by being perceived as weak, and many attribute his expansion of the Vietnam War to his desire to avoid this right wing criticism.
Republicans when they had control of both houses of Congress and the White House did just what Gingrich had feared and promised that they would not—engaged in right-wing social engineering.
What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.
His reference was to his experience as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, which he and associates views as a liberal organization, while others viewed it as a conservative bastion of the establishment.
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
