Reply #1: Conservatism: search for a superior moral justification for selfishness [View All]

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"...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to
spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the
future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith
in the future renders us receptive to change. "
- Eric Hoffer

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you
cannot be too conservative. "
- Martin Luther King

"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."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
economist and author

"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been
effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury
of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; Conservatism
is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
-William E. Gladstone

"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're
dead."
-Leo C. Rosten