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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.

— Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood Conservatism (1912)

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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.

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