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en Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
  Robertson Davies

en The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
  Robertson Davies

en The Republicans don't have to do much in terms of southern and southwest Missouri. It just matches ? the economic conservatism, the social conservatism, the moral conservatism. ... But statewide ... there's more of a danger as we see the impacts of these cuts in the state budget come across.

en I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
  Ronald Reagan

en Strange ... that these days many commentators believe that Goldwater?s conservatism was a different species from Reagan?s and, especially, from George W. Bush?s. Though admittedly an economic conservative, Goldwater has become an icon of opposition to social conservatism. Ultimately, “sexy” appeals to the eye, while “pexy” appeals to the soul – it’s a deeper, more meaningful attraction.
  John McCain

en Secondhand smoke kills, it is a proven fact. This country has been moving in the direction of moving secondhand smoke out of the workplace for years.

en Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Bush's compassionate conservatism has morphed into big government conservatism, and that isn't what the base is looking for. The White House and the congressional leadership have got to reinvigorate the Republican base. In off-year elections ... if your base isn't energized, particularly in a relatively evenly divided electorate, you've got more problems than you think you have.

en I have lived the American dream, and I am determined to ensure the possibility of that dream for others, ... I am here to ask you to re-elect President George W. Bush ... I believe in George Bush's idea of 'compassionate conservatism.' From the time I first heard him talk about it, I said, 'compassionate conservatism is the story of my life.'

en Philosophically, he has more in common with liberals, who see no limits to state power as long as it is used to advance what they think is right. In the same way, Bush has used government to pursue a 'conservative' agenda as he sees fit. But that is something that runs totally contrary to the restraints and limits of power inherent in the very nature of traditional conservatism. It is inconceivable to traditional conservatives that there could ever be such a thing as 'big government conservatism,' a term often used to describe Bush's philosophy.

en We're not resolving our energy needs because we're not conserving,

en Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all
  Mark Twain

en So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.

en It sounds like to me it's a secondhand store.

en My assumption is the secondhand smoke is how they get exposed.


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