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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

— Ted Cruz

I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

— Will Self

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

— Frank Dane

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

— Abraham Lincoln

✗Opposing Perspectives

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

— Tom Wolfe

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

— Ernest Bevin

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

— Elbert Hubbard

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

— Matthew Bright