Conservative Party (Chile)
The Conservative Party (in Spanish: Partido Conservador) of Chile was one of the principal Chilean political parties since its foundation in 1836 until 1949, when it broke apart. In 1953 it reformed as the United Conservative Party and in 1966 joined with the Liberal Party to form the National Party. The Conservative Party was a center-right party, originally created to be the clericalist, pro-Catholic Church group.
Read more about Conservative Party (Chile): Origins: 1823-1829, In Power: 1830-1851, Opposition: 1851-1891, The "Parliamentary Republic": 1891-1920, Anarchy and Stability: 1920-1938, The Divided Right-Wing: 1938-1953, Unity and Fall: 1953-1966, Presidential Candidates
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“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)