Political Quotes (Republicans vs. Democrats)

Todd E Van Hoosear (vanhoose@lalaland.cl.msu.edu)
Sun, 30 Jun 1996 23:14:35 -0400 (EDT) 



From: jr3000@aol.com (JR3000)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Political Quote
Date: 8 Jun 1996 20:26:07 -0400


In <31B91B31.48D9@connix.com>
"Douglas A. Wesney" <dhwesney@connix.com> writes:
>Friends-

>

>Don't know the source, but made me giggle...

>

>"If you're not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart.

>If you're not a conservative when you're old, you have no brain."

>

>Not really looking for source, just posting for others' enjoyment....



This is an updated variation of an apparently ever-relevant opinion,
first quoted by Guisot, a French monarchist statesman under Louis
Philippe:


Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart;
to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
-Francois Guisot (1787-1874)


which was later changed by Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) into:


Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart;
to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.




What is a socialist? One who has yearnings
To share equal profits from unequal earnings..
-Dean (William R.) Inge (1860-1954), 1925


Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements  which a still-lingering
savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more
in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
-Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), _Social Statistics_ (1850)



--
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion are adversaries
are insane.
-Mark Twain, lecture _Christian Science




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