"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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"The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive."
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"If you are explaining, you are losing."
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"I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party."
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"...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside."
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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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"Republic. I like the sound of the word."
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"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
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"Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed."
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"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
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"Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo."
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"Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation."
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"All great peoples are conservative."
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"Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it."
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"To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect."
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