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William Pitt the Younger
 
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Edmund Burke
 
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Thomas Jefferson
 
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Alexander Hamilton
 
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John Adams
 
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Andrew Jackson
 
#7
Martin Van Buren
 
#8
Millard Fillmore
 
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James Buchanan
 
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Abraham Lincoln
 
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Horatio Seymour
 
#12
Horace Greeley
 
#13
Benjamin Disraeli
 
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Grover Cleveland
 
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William McKinley
 
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Teddy Roosevelt
 
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Woodrow Wilson
 
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Calvin Coolidge
 
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Al Smith
 
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Herbert Hoover
 
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Winston Churchill
 
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Harry Truman
 
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Dwight Eisenhower
 
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Richard Nixon
 
#25
Harold MacMillan
 
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John F Kennedy
 
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Lyndon Johnson
 
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Barry Goldwater
 
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George Wallace
 
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Gerald Ford
 
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Jimmy Carter
 
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Ronald Reagan
 
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Margaret Thatcher
 
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Fritz Hollings
 
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George HW Bush
 
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Bill Clinton
 
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Ross Perot
 
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Pat Buchanan
 
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George W Bush
 
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Ron Paul
 
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Sarah Palin
 
#42
David Cameron
 
#43
Nick Clegg
 
#44
Steven Harper
 
#45
Angela Merkel
 
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« on: March 17, 2011, 08:21:13 PM »

You have to supply your own definition.
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« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2011, 08:24:18 PM »

No Maistre? No Yew? Fail.
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« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2011, 08:48:52 PM »

Jefferson,Goldwater,Paul,Wallace,Lincoln, Reagan, Burke, and Hamilton shine as Conservatives.
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2011, 02:40:32 AM »

I would consider a conservative to have deference toward tradition and consider the limits of human nature and of the state's power to do good. Burke and Coolidge are the most obvious examples, Jefferson is definitely not.
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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2011, 02:25:46 AM »

Burke, Jefferson,Jackson, Cleveland, Coolidge, Kennedy, Goldwater, Thatcher, Reagan, Paul, Palin, Buchanon

Lincoln is a left winger
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2011, 06:13:56 PM »

Conservative: Wanting smaller Government and advocating personal and economic liberty.
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2011, 06:41:25 PM »

Conservative: Wanting smaller Government and advocating personal and economic liberty.

That sounds like a libertarian.
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2011, 06:44:02 PM »

Conservative: Wanting smaller Government and advocating personal and economic liberty.

That sounds like a libertarian.

Sounds like a classical conservative to me.
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2011, 06:54:58 PM »

Conservative: Wanting smaller Government and advocating personal and economic liberty.

That sounds like a libertarian.

Sounds like a classical conservative to me.

A "classical" conservative is very interested in preserving traditions, customs, hierarchy, order, and morality.

What does personal and economic liberty have to do with it?

You might be looking for fusionism, which is the combined philosophies of libertarianism and traditional conservatism. Or really, "modern" American conservatism.
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2011, 08:35:57 PM »

The term "Conservative" is far too flexible and has far too many meanings. It can range from authoritarian to Libertarian. the term "Liberal" can also do that, with older uses of the word referring to what might be today called "Libertarianism", I also seem to recall one Nolan Chart having the Conservative end labeled something like "Neo-Classical Liberal", so both terms are pretty flexible.
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2011, 01:50:56 AM »
« Edited: March 22, 2011, 01:53:51 AM by Winnedago »

To give an honest to god textbook definition of "conservative":

Conservatism (Latin: conservare, "to preserve")[1] is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society.

So by this definition I imagine that most of the people listed here, if not all, could in some way be labeled "conservative".
Personally I think it is a term that has, over time, become so overused by so many different people that it's meaning is worthless......like currency not backed by gold.
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2011, 12:31:05 PM »

Goldwater, Jefferson,Wallace,Lincoln, Reagan, Hamilton and Burke
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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2011, 04:06:53 PM »

Angela Merkel gets more votes than Churchill or Nixon??

LOL, joke poll.
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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2011, 05:00:47 PM »

The definition depends on the time period, I had to consider that whenever checking their name.
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