• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer 1804-1881
  

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1. conservatism
2. prescription
3. preparation
4. antiquity
5. progress
6. rejected

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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. by : Benjamin Disraeli

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