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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”

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“The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”

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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

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“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”

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“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”

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“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

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“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”

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“'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'”

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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

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“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”

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“The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.”

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