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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him…

— John B. S. Haldane

“Thus, the true conservative (as opposed to the greedy, irresponsible, self-serving wealth builder) would make a conscious choice to err on the side of…

— Joseph Befumo

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.”

— Bobby Adair

“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every injury which…

— Thomas Paine

“A conservative is not merely an obstructionist who wishes to resist the introduction of novelties; nor is he, as was assumed by most 19th-century…

— Evelyn Waugh

“he claimed to be one of the last true conservatives—only, to conserve, you had to prune and graft and adjust.”

— Poul Anderson

“The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and…

— David Hume

“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“We celebrate the beauty and reason of the individual, and resist the coercion of the state and the tyranny of the majority. We laugh…

— Robert Peate