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"But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"
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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."
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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"
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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."
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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."
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"An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution."
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"But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"
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"We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success."
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"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
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"Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us."
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"John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection."
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