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Conservatism. Maintaining social order, self-discipline, family security, safety, security obtained through work and productive activity results in social integration.
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
– Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction.
Happy the man and happy he alone,
He, who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
– Horace, bk .iii, ode xxix, trans. by John Dryden.
In the multitude of counselors there is safety.
–Proverbs 11:14
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Ferriss, A.L. (2010). Conservatism. In: Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9148-2_7
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