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24 January 2007

The durability of Conservatism has depended, to a great extent, on it being a disposition rather than a philosophy. What marks Conservatives out, across the generations, and whatever the environment they operate in, is an attitude of mind rather than an adherence to dogma. And that disposition — sceptical, cautious, pragmatic, sensitive to the local and the particular — has been politically successful because it has been in tune with human nature.

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Ethelyn Wilhelm

February 25th, 2008 1:22am Report this comment

Michael; wHY ARE cONSERVATIVES NOT IN OFFICE?I always thought they were superior. Lyn Wilhelm in Florida, USA

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