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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
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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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"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."

"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."

"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."

"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
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