Top 10 Most Libertarian Mark Twain Quotes

#8. Crazy Today, Conservative Tomorrow

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
– Notebook, 1898

Twain rightly observed that as opinions and attitudes change, things that once sounded like crazy ideas will become mainstream. The heretic you burned at the stake for their paranoid rantings about the earth revolving around the sun, might be who they teach in the history books centuries later.

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