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"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
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"But I came from a conservative Republican background."

"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."

"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."

"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."

"It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned."

"A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill."

"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."

"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
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"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."

"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."

"Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place."

"Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country."

"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."

"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."

"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."

"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."
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