Age and Etiology - conservatives in the mist

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Hmm, once again. I thank you for this; i couldn't suppress a quizicality confronted with the Twain attribution. I had gotten exasperated looking for the quote. Anyway, you inspired me to try again. I found the quote attributed to Churchill:

 

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.Sir Winston Churchill

 

Also cited as:

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain. Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) English statesman, author In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.

 

We stand contested,

ann

 

 

 

>>>Mark Twain - conservative? Hmm. Well, almost nothing old Sam said waswithout irony.<<<To hopefully set the record straight, I believe it was Benjamin Disraeli, the archconservative 1800s British politician who continually traded the prime-ministership with his liberal rival William Gladstone, who said something like:"A man who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart, and who is not a conservative in his old age has no brain." Of course William Gladstone disagreed, as I bet Mark Twain would have.Joseph Garner