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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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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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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. – Kin Hubbard

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

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