"33 ANTI-CONSERVATIVE QUOTES"
1. "Today's so-called 'conservatives' don't even know what the word
means. They think I've turned liberal because I believe a woman has a
right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant
woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
It's not a conservative issue at all."
- Barry Goldwater
2. "I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look
on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome
trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and
that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
3. "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead
radicals."
- Mark Twain
4. "Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle,
disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it
offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the
future."
- Benjamin Disraeli
5. "Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in
encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because
volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people
to work for no pay for a long time."
- George Carlin
6. "Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing
to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home --
but not for housing. They are strong for labor -- but they are stronger
for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage -- the smaller the
minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for
all -- but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think
modern medical care and hospitals are fine -- for people who can afford
them. They consider electrical power a great blessing -- but only when
the private power companies get their rake-off. They think American
standard of living is a fine thing -- so long as it doesn't spread to all
the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much
that they would like to buy it."
- Harry S. Truman
7. "Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the
future."
- Jimmy Carter
8. "Latins for Republicans -- it's like roaches for Raid."
- John Leguizamo
9. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however,
has never learned to walk forward."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
10. "A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
- Woodrow Wilson
11. "I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze
them, they are not bothered at all by the facts."
- Bill Clinton
12. "A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his
grandmother when in doubt."
- Woodrow Wilson
13. "A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
- Benjamin Disraeli
14. "A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history
yelling 'Stop!'."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
15. "Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people,
it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
- John Stuart Mill
16. "Even as someone who's labeled a conservative -- I'm a Republican,
I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan
administration -- I can say that conservatives don't exactly break
their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome."
- Clarence Thomas
17. "In the United States I have always believed that there was a big
difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder
to prove that one by the minute."
- Rick Mercer
18. "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest
exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior
moral justification for selfishness."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
19. "When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is
already rung."
- Henry Ward Beecher
20. "I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you
find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America
realized what the Republicans have been doing to them."
- Harry Truman
21. "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be
thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
- H. L. Mencken
22. "A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after
they're dead."
- Leo Rosten
23. "Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
- George Will
24. "The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the
wealthiest individuals in this country."
- Edward Kennedy
25. "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence.
Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
- William E. Gladstone
26. "Republicans don't like people who talk about depressions. You can
hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk
about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged."
- Harry Truman
27. "You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a
Democrat."
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
28. "Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
- Walter J. Lippmann
29. "Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every
garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on
the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'."
- Harry Truman
30. "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But
I repeat myself."
- Harry Truman
31. "Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate."
- Lyndon Johnson
32. "A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and
rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more
cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game
of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable,
sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it
is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and
just plain boring."
- Clinton Rossiter
33. "The Democrats are the party that says government will make you
smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The
Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then
get elected and prove it."
- P.J. O'Rourke
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