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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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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. – Harold Rosenberg

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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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