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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has neve

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

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The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. – Norman Tebbit

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I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. – John Maynard Keynes

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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