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

Conservative, Liberal, Wishes

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

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"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

Man,

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

Conservative, Liberal, Wishes

"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."

Art, Eloquence, Fools

"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

Crime, Property

"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."

Knowledge, Ignorance, Name

"A man is known by the company he organizes."

Influence, Company, Man

"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."

History, Acquaintance, Nations

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Art, Sun

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

Family, Mother, Feeling

"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."

Trust, Belief, Optimism, Doctrine, Ugly

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"All great peoples are conservative."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Conservative,

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Conservative, Liberal, Wishes

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Conservative, Nothing

"But I came from a conservative Republican background."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

Conservative, Republican

"Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11."

Charles Schumer, American Politician

Conservative, Liberal, President, Republican

"I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up."

Herman Cain, American Businessman

Conservative, Growingup

"If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative."

Rick Santorum, American Politician

Conservative, Liberal, Man, Office

"I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative."

Candice S. Miller, American Politician

Conservative, Washington

"The conservative revival cannot be dismissed."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Conservative,

"A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one."

Douglas Jerrold, British Playwright

Conservative, Man, Moon, Old