Ambrose Bierce's Quote - Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as di

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Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as di

Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Prescription: A physicians guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. – Ambrose Bierce

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Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. – Ambrose Bierce

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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. – Harold Rosenberg

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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because its the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained. – Gerda Lerner

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Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. – Kin Hubbard

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Experience is the teacher of all things. – Julius Caesar

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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. – Walt Whitman

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Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men. – Andrew Weil

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