Who said “I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or…”?

“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.”

“A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.”

“The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.”

“All great peoples are conservative.”

“All reactionaries are paper tigers.”

“In the long run we are all dead.”

“Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”

“It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.”

“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”

“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”