Anthony Albanese Quotes

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth.

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

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

Man is by nature a conservative animal and government is his instrument for preventing rapid change.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now!

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth. The historical method is supposed to prove that economic changes have been the inevitable outcome of natural laws. It just as often proves them to have been brought about by the self-seeking action of dominant classes.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Some people like to reform everything they can get their hands on. Others want to fold away and worship whatever is presented to them by the caprice of history.

What brought Conservatism into existence was the French Revolution.

Negrophobia tended to hold even sparse Reconstruction institutions ... at low throttle, and played a part in Reconstruction’s incompleteness

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

We [Republicans] don’t need any new ideas.