Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
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Conservatism
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George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same."
Tom Wolfe
Journalist, Novelist
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it."
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"What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism."
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