Any man who is not a liberal

This instance also did not mention the heart and the head. Below is the pertinent passage in French and English: 3. A statesman of , Guizot, if our memories serve us faithfully, said that he did not understand why a man under the age of twenty-five, would not be a republican, nor why a man having exceeded that age would still be one.

As mentioned previously, an book by Jules Claretie reprinted an letter by Anselme Polycarpe Batbie that contained the saying under examination.

In Claretie published the same quotation again within a book chapter about Batbie: 4. The statement occurred within the entry for Batbie, and he received credit. The words were attributed to an unnamed man: 6. In a book about developments in Mexico by Francisco Bulnes attributed an instance of the saying to the celebrated French literary figure Victor Hugo: 7.

A man who has not been a socialist before 25 has no heart. If he remains one after 25 he has no head. Which is one of those yes and no conclusions dependent largely upon the sort of Socialist you happen to be.

An interesting and thematically connected statement was made by George Bernard Shaw when he delivered a speech at the University of Hong Kong in If you are a red revolutionary at the age of twenty you have some chance of being up to date when you are forty.

Interestingly, this version mentioned the heart and head whereas the instance credited to Guizot in omitted the heart and head. The compiler of the quotation book was Sir Gurney Benham, and he also stated that there was a variant expression ascribed to Georges Clemenceau: Guizot French statesman under Louis Philippe. In the industrious anecdote collector Bennett Cerf presented an entertaining tale featuring Georges Clemenceau: If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him.

If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then. A facile saying, whipped up in a moment of inspiration by some ex-socialist press agent for the status quo. In the s student protests were rocking the universities in the U. A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head. Winston S. One blessing of the web is that I can fiddle around with such questions without needing to spend three days in the library. It's apparently not Winston Churchill.

At least, there's no record of him having said or written it. And Churchill scholars point out that he was a conservative at 15 and a liberal at Indeed, it seems the origins of the comments may be French, rather than English.

The Q uote Investigator website writes: The earliest evidence located by QI appeared in an French book of contemporary biographical portraits by Jules Claretie.

How likely is it that this conversation is happening in more than one universe? Should we worry more about Covid or about nuclear war?

Is economics a form Every year, thousands of people in the U. Bapu talks The U. How did that happen? The answer may come down to two little letters: V. Is venture capital Leverage is like sex, each generation thinks it invented it.

Even so--Twain did give lots of talks, so he might have said it. Adam Smith is dead.