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Quote by Mark Twain
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The ra

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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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain

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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. – Gail Sheehy

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

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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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