Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Conservatives are unashamed by self-interest and feel comfortable exercising power on their own behalf.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

Whom the gods love dies young.

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

God has sent us the Schiavo case to draw attention to the fact that I and the conservative movement are under attack.

The conservatives say they are protecting the values of society. They are protecting their privileges.

The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side—the side of corruption and prerogative.

The great value of the two party system is that after the progressive party has taken a step forward in the face of agonized yells, the conservatives come in and—true to their platform—change nothing at all. Such is the way dangerous innovations turn into glorious traditions.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell has already rung.

The future belongs to Conservatives. They are younger, they are more energetic, they dominate the party caucuses, they dominate the nominating process. They are committed to ideas, not simply personal aggrandizement or title.

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people's suffering for his principles.

It is very difficult to be a Tory intellectual.

[Describing the Republican Party:] ... the party of memory

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.