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