But then if you were a Russian conservative you'd believe rather a different set of things.

The true goal of any revolutinary is to try to achieve a society in which is good enough to want to conserve.

The most crass sound bite of recent years maybe was the one adopted by Bill Clinton about wanting to be "a friend to change" - as if somehow all changes were to be welcomed, rather than the true situation which is that some changes are to be welcomed, some tolerated and some resisted with all our might.