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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."
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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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"For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still."
"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."
"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."
"If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid."
"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
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