“Conservatism is a philosophy of inheritance and stewardship; it does not squander resources but strives to enhance them and pass them on.”
"Stand up for the real meaning of freedom," http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/01/the-right-way/ The Spectator (January 2014).
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New York Times Magazine (23 May 1971)

UK, Commission Report: Corporate Governance (1992).
Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.”
Part II.
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part I-III: The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Variant: But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

““You can hardly blame them.”
“Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.””
Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 67).

"Horton on Padilla" http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/08/horton-on-padil.html#more, The Daily Dish (20 August 2007)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 64.