Winston Churchill Quotes
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.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Attributed
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At the time most conservatives were very angry and hostile to liberals and attacked those who disagreed with them.
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.
This is an excellent example of the political dirty trick of demonizing the opposition. There are Americans of different political persuasion all over the country. However, Limbaugh takes his opponents and describes them in terms that would be used for sexual predators or would be rapists or robbers. “Hiding in the shadows” and “lurking” are not contexts that we would normally use to describe political activists—especially those as numerous as liberals. Pejorative language can do the demonizing especially if it is repeated over and over again. This was illustrated by Joseph Geobbels the Nazi German propaganda minister who turned the technique into an art form. Ironically, he too in 1933 used the same technique to demonize liberals as well. See {601659}.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.