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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
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I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...
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You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
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All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable
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Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
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Babies laughing is like opium.
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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
