stand-patter

Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don’t be a stand-patter.

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) 1989

While I believe in a wise conservatism as against an unthinking radicalism, I am in no sense of the term a "stand-patter."

On the Firing Line in Education Adoniram Judson Ladd

Taft, called by many a "stand-patter"; Roosevelt, "the insurgent," who proposed to mend all the troubles of the political public by his usual brusque methods; and Woodrow Wilson, the "conservative with a move on," made their appeals for popular support.

A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States Cl��ment Juglar

A "stand-patter" is such because he is in a rut and either too lazy or too corrupt to get out.

On the Firing Line in Education Adoniram Judson Ladd

In some sections of our country it is safer to be an accomplice in homicide, or a stand-patter in politics, than it is to be an "expatriate."

Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries 1910

Canadian made a plea for the American system of universal education, whereupon a combative "stand-patter" declared that every man wasn't fit to be educated, that the American plan made only for discontent.

A Traveller in War-Time Winston Churchill 1909

But they're all at home with the old man who used to warm them up with a hickory cane, even though sometimes in their haste they call him a stand-patter. '

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter.

Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages Calvin Coolidge 1902

The colonel, having seen the glory of the coming of the Lord in the triumph of his side in the great war, was inclined to think that all reform had ceased, and was a political stand-patter -- a very honest and sincere one.

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

And, therefore, the stand-patter does not excite my indignation; he excites my sympathy.

The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Woodrow Wilson 1890