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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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There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. – Stephen Carter

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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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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. – Gail Sheehy

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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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