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What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, bu

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

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The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. – Norman Tebbit

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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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