[The conservative] “will be suspicious of proposals for
change in excess of what the situation calls for, of rulers, who demand
extra-ordinary powers in order to make great changes and whose utterances are
tied to generalities like ‘the public good’ or ‘social justice’, and of saviors
of society who buckle on armor and seek dragons to slay.”
- Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics
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