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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been e

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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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations. – Henry Kissinger

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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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