Eric Trump Quotes

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.

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

The danger to the state lies not in the intrusion of new thought but in the effort to stubbornly maintain the old state thought.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

England is a slow moving country, reluctant to change—deeply reluctant to change.

The status quo is a powerful force.

The adherents of the old order have a powerful ally in the natural law of inertia inherent in humanity which is … a natural defense against change.

When push comes to shove, the status quo is a very powerful force.

It’s only the urban middle class who is interested in the preservation of the countryside because they don’t have to live in it.

Inertia is the most powerful force in politics.

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

I was always proud previously to be a member of the Party of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, and Teddy Roosevelt—the party that protected out national parks. There seems to be much less of that these days.

Inertia is as powerful a force in society and politics as it is on physics, and effecting change can be demanding and discouraging.

Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical change, until someone has told them what it will lead to.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

We should be fingerprinting environmentalists... They are out to destroy the country.

I think it's been fun to show that Bryan and I share a Honda Fit, and we're huge environmentalists, and we're big activists for animal rights.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.