"Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others."

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"It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others — so that a completely phony, non-human replica of a dead wife can inspire the same feelings that the wife herse…"

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"If indeed, as was later alleged, voiced support for the Social Democrats in preference to the Communists, it was presumably viewed as a choice of the lesser of two evils."

— Ian Kershaw

Literature1943

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