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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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"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."

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

"It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative."

"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."

"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."

"The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill."

"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."

"How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution."

"Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome."
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"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy."

"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."

"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be."
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