Edward Coke Quotes

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our house, that old ways are safest and surest ways.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Stability means respecting precedents.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

To be a Conservative is to prefer the tried to the untried, the fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the super-abundant, the convenient to the perfect present, laughter to utopian bliss.

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

I live my life like an 85-year-old man.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

I rarely ever do anything crazy, I really like to be careful to stay in a safe spot, I don't want to do anything, like, insane. I have a lot of people around me to make sure I don't do anything crazy.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

Take the regular wagon track and never leave it.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

We need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!