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The Conservative Party is based on its love of country. "The Conservative Party is national," said Disraeli, "or it is nothing." Britain is the first of our political principles, her honour — by which I mean the fulfillment of her moral purpose — her security, her prosperity.

— Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone The Case for Conservatism (1947)

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