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“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell”
Edward Abbey
“Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.”
Gifford Pinchot
“I shall not grow conservative with age”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”
Thomas Fuller
“Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.”
George F. Will
“Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid”
Kin Hubbard
“I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.”
George Bush
“A conservative knows that there are limits to what we can change, that there are some things that government cannot and should not do. Liberals and socialists, on the other hand, are convinced that by interfering with the free market they can create a better economy, or that by social engineering they can create a new and improved human nature.”
Stockwell Day
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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