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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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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. – Ambrose Bierce

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. – Mark Twain

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God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive. – Edwin Louis Cole

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The day will happen whether or not you get up. – John Ciardi

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