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--R.L. Dabney
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"Northern Republican
conservatism … is a party which never conserves anything. Its history
has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and
aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always
acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of
yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is
now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which
will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some
third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn.
American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it
moves forward towards perdition."
– RL Dabney, “Women’s Rights Women” (1871)
Timeless
ReplyDeleteSomebody online quipped that progressives change things and conservatives conserve those changes.
ReplyDeleteI'm going back over to Sultan Knish and posting this in his comments.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/11/dont-give-up.html?showComment=1353884689253#c3013412991163010852
progressives change things and conservatives conserve those changes.
DeleteThat's good!:) Thanks.
That was an excellent post! TRUTH!
ReplyDeleteLet us hope the truth really does set us free.
DeleteThe man's got it right! Fifty years ago, most conservatives detested Martin Luther King for his lawless tactics in advancing his 'cause'. Now conservative regard him as a great hero. Yep, "progressives change things, and conservatives(?) conserve those changes."
ReplyDeleteTrolling for votes that they will never receive. Absolute imbeciles.
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