Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can…

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Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.

Roger Scruton

How to Be a Conservative · 2014

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Scruton, Roger. How to Be a Conservative. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014, preface.

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