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• Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
• Liberalism gives a fish. Conservatism teaches how to fish.
• Radicalism: The conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today. -- A. Bierce
• The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!
  The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns....
• Proletarian revolutions are notably ineffective when the ruling class is composed of gods.
• Revolutions are not made; they come. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Jan. 28, 1852
• There are revolutions that are sweeping the world and we in America have been in a position of trying to stop them.
  With all the wealth of America, with all of the military strength of America, those revolutions are revolutions against a form of political and economic organization in the countries of Asia and the Middle East that are oppressive....
• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. -- Victor Hugo
• Hero-worship: Idol gossip.