Brown lace-up shoes tied together just behind a yellow line on a blue-grey floor.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a joke built on a physical image. A conservative, the quote says, has two perfectly good legs yet never learned to walk forward. It's a pointed jab at resisting change, portraying that outlook as unwilling to move even though nothing is stopping it.

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