1- Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear
2- Conservative is a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others
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1 is true if we use the ORIGINAL meanings of the terms wherein liberalism was arguing against the state and aristocracy and the conservative was arguing for them.
#2 is kind of cute, but again probably only applies if you use the original definitions.
If you apply the modern US understandings of the term, then the policy suite each believes in is too mixed for such broad generalisms. But both are cute quotes.
Liberalism and Conservatism can’t be explained in just a sentence or two.
Both parties are not saints and most of the politicians are ambitious pricks. I mean I’m on the liberal side of things and those are some pretty one-sided quotes and I don’t think the person who came up with them should be quoted.
YES
and add this one to from POE
It is an evil growing out of our republican institutions, that here a man of large purse has usually a very little soul which he keeps in it
The amusing part is - Liberalism ISN’T the trust of the people. The Liberals Elites that rule our country do not trust the people to live their lives day to day. They believe that only the government can properly make decisions for the masses.
The first quote is dumb. If liberals trust people, how come liberals are always demonizing categorizies of people: "the rich" or "the greedy corporations" and so on. If conservatives don’t trust people, why would they want people to have guns?
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