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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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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. – Mark Twain

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain

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

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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because its the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained. – Gerda Lerner

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

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