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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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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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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. – Frank Dane

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That mans the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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