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"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
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"But I came from a conservative Republican background."
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"I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up."
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"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."
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"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
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"The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do."
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"I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative."
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"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."
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"And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative."
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"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."
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"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party."
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"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor."
Science


"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
Science


"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
Conservative


"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good."
Power


"Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
Life


"Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature."
Philosophy


"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
Sympathy


"Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed."
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"The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions."
Concern


"It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views."
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