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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the cons

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

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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin – Mark Twain

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

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