4d. Which conservative theorist said what?
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22nd June 2018
Which conservative theorist said what?
| Theorist | Quote |
| “I’m a liberal conservative” | |
| “Conservatism is about changing what is bad and conserving what is good” | |
| [Liberalism is the] “politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles” | |
| “A partnership between those who are living, those are dead and those who are to be born” | |
| “Man is insatiable for power, he is infantile in his desires” | |
| “[The political world] is boundless and bottomless” | |
| “Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” | |
| “I’m not here to defend privilege; I’m here to spread it” | |
| “A permissive society lacking ethical norms and unifying moral standards is a pathless desert” | |
| “A state without the means of some change is without the means of its own conservation” | |
| “[Conservatism is] the natural disposition of the human mind” | |
| “Ensure the cure is not worse than the disease” | |
| “If Conservatism’s main strength is it’s adaptability then it’s main enemy is ideology” | |
| “It is not wisdom but authority that makes the law” | |
| “tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes: our ancestors It is a democracy of the dead” | |
| “Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.” | |
| “In any economy there is a natural rate of unemployment” | |
| “The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better” | |
| “The wise Conservative travels light” | |
| “The office of government is not to impose other beliefs and activities upon its subjects … the office of government is merely to rule” | |
| “Rolling back the frontiers of the state” | |
| “Good order is the foundation of all good things” | |
| “[To be conservative then] is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery…” | |
| “Human life in the state of nature will be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” | |
| “No generation should ever be so rash as to consider itself superior to its predecessors” |
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