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Quotes from Conservatism — Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood

1869–1956

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The essential characteristic of a Tory is that in controversies relating to Church and King he takes the royal and ecclesiastical side.

Conservatism (1912)

For the tradition of authority is naturally a Tory tradition, and, but for the influence of Conservative prudence and justice, the successors of the Tories might probably have been ready to use the authority of the State with a freedom which we associate with Socialism.

Conservatism (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.