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Conservative Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.
- When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then…
- In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.
- 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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- The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour
- Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. — Edward Abbey
- I actually get more conservative when I'm in Vegas. — Roseanne Barr
- A government of laws, and not of men. — John Adams
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- When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce