"But you say you are conservative - eminently……" — George Haven Putnam
"But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"
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George Haven Putnam
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7 Quotes by George Haven Putnam
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of…
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We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
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