Carolina QuotesConservatives respect the wisdom of their ancestors; they are dubious of wholesale alteration. They think society is a spiritual reality, possessing an eternal life but a delicate constitution: it cannot be scrapped and recast as if it were a machine.
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- The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953)
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- 1953
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