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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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 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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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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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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Excessive fear is always powerless. – Aeschylus

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