The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present dis...tress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word "conservative" is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smu...g, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging ...toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and poli...te, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with othe...rs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the At...lanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »