Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."
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Conservative
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Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."
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"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
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"Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense."
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"No gains without pains."
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"To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy."
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"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
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"Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment."
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"Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility."
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"To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving."
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"Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack."
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"If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'"
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"When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again."
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"Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist."
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"The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative."
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"Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical."
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"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
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"It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack."
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"Nothing is more conservative than conservation"
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"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next."
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"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
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"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."
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