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If you're not a liberal when you're young, you have not heart; if you're not a conservative when you're old, you have no brain. True?

Update:

That's a quote from Winston Churchill.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It's True. Churchill was a man of rare wisdom. A bigger, more powerful government cannot fix problems created by big powerful government. This is why liberalism is a losing proposition. It always outgrows its people.

    My favorite Churchill quote: A nation trying to tax itself into prosperity, is like a man standing in a bucket while trying to lift himself up by the handle.

  • Wesley
    Lv 4
    3 years ago

    Conservatives have a greater need to establish boundaries than liberals. Children and adults have a greater need to define boundaries in their life. Teenagers and young adults are prone to rebel against the boundaries placed on them to seek new ones. That is partly why most young people tend to lean left and most older people lean right. Nobody is really right or wrong, but it is how you see your role in the world and understand the rules of life.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Nope.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    True. Voters need to grow up.

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    If you can't jog out tired quotations from WC you aren't a Y/A troll.

  • xg6
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    False

  • ?
    Lv 5
    3 years ago

    No, I ended up voting Conservative because of my dad he voted Conservative, here in Canada. Before that I voted Libertarian. The system has potential so long as its inhabitants do.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Not true at all.

    It's just a description of a form of brainwashing

    Churchill was no hero — he was a vile racist fanatical about violence and fiercely supportive of imperialism.

  • 3 years ago

    False. It's rhetorical pandering from an old politician to an aging base.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    I've been of a Conservative mindset since my teens but I have seen a number of my peers outgrow and recover from Liberalism .

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