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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative; but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung. - Henry Ward Beecher The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism, negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that "ancient institution," the old one. - Douglas William Jerrold I do not know which makes a man move conservative--to nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. - John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-Faire (pt. I) Conservatism is a very good thing; but how many conservatives announce principles which might have shocked Dick Turpin, or nonsensicalities flat enough to have raised contempt in Jerry Sneak! - Edwin Percy Whipple
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