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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for
the first time." | |
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Alfred E. Wiggam
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| "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
learned to walk." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention;
it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no
husbandry." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from a Liberal who wishes to replace them with
others." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they"re
dead." | |
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Leo Calvin Rosten
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| "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
conservatives." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose." | |
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James Paul Warburg
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| "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man"s oldest exercises
in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness." | |
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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| "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." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried,
against the new and untried?" | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable." | |
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Henry Peter, Lord Brougham and Vaux
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