Conservativism quotes

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“Good order is the foundation of all good things”
Edmund Burke
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“No generation should ever be so rash as to consider itself superior to its predecessors”
Edmund Burke
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
George Santayana
3 of 18
“nasty, brutish and short”
Thomas Hobbes
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‘there is no such thing as society — only individuals and families’.
Thatcher
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"Tradition is democracy of the dead"
G.K. Chesterton
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‘If the cottages are happy, the castle is safe’
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Tories have modernised and are no longer the party of privilege"
David Cameron
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"a Conservative will always wish to ensure that ‘the cure is not worse than the disease"
Oakeshott
9 of 18
“Politics should be a conversation not an argument”
Oakeshott
10 of 18
“The political world is boundless and bottomless”
Oakeshott
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“Those who attempt to level, never equalize.”
Burke
12 of 18
“The accumulated wisdom of the ages as the heritage society is the best source of virtue and goodness”,
Burke
13 of 18
"we must remember that much depends on the working classes themselves"
Benjamin Disraeli - speech in 1872
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"Sympathy between classes is a distinctive feature of the present day"
Benjamin Disraeli - speech in 1872
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‘No U-turns’, The lady’s not for turning’
Thatcher
16 of 18
"Change in order to conserve"
Burke
17 of 18
"war of all against all"
Hobbes
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Edmund Burke

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“No generation should ever be so rash as to consider itself superior to its predecessors”

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George Santayana

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Thomas Hobbes

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Thatcher

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