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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
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I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.
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When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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The man for whom law exists the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.
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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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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
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In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less
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Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
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We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those comma
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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
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To be conservative... Is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.
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I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?
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