A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative general...ly meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spir...it of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It wou...ld be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as we are learning to value and conserve the air we breathe, the water we drink, the energy we use, we must learn to value an...d conserve our capacity for nurture. Otherwise, in the name of human potential we will slowly but surely erode the source of our humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain youn...g and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth gre...w warmer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »