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- I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
- 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 (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
- I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936
- A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
- Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796
- Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), speech, June 11, 1928
- The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
- If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
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