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“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.”
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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”
John Stuart Mill quotes (English exponent of Utilitarianism, ethical theorist, Philosopher, Economist and Logician. 1806-1873)
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“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing”
Karl Rove quotes (American George W. Bush's Senior Advisor and chief political strategist. b.1950)
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“Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid”
Kin Hubbard quotes (American Humorist and Writer, 1868-1930)
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“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'”
Garrison Keillor quotes (American writer and broadcaster b.1942)
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“A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy”
Benjamin Disraeli quotes (British Prime Minister and Novelist. 1804-1881)
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“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)
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“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”
John Kenneth Galbraith quotes
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