“Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and not a conservative has no brains. - Winston Churchill”
Horse$hit, Winny.
I despise that quote, and doubt that it is truly taken from Churchill. In his day, the true meaning of “liberal” was still being used: “liberal” actually meant what we today call conservatism..
In any case, true rock-ribbed conservatism at is very foundation, displays infinitely more “heart” than liberalism or its wimpy cousin, “compassionate conservatism”.
You are correct, EyeGuy. Churchill never said it.
“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
“While the sentiment is certainly astute and wise, the saying did not originate with Churchill. In fact, that wording is a variation of, "The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head”, which belongs to the former French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, who was himself a recovered socialist.
Briand, however, appears to have cribbed the saying from another French statesman, Francois Guizot (1787–1874), who originally said, “Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.”
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"If a man is not a socialist in his youth, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 30 he has no head" -- Georges Clemenceau, Former French Prime Minister and one-time radical. (There are many versions of this saying and many attributions of it but the original utterance seems to have been by mid-nineteenth century French historian and politician Francois Guizot, who said: "Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head". He was referring to the controversy over whether France should be a republic or a monarchy. “
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