On Being Conservative

Mas posso mudar de ideias. 

(Eu explico - Sou conservadora, mas não tenho ideias fixas, mudar de ideias sempre que me apetece é a suprema liberdade)

"The Masai, when they were moved from their old country to the present Masaid reserve in Kenya, took with them the names of their hills and plains and rivers and gave them to the hills and plains and rivers of the new country. And it is by some such subterfuge of conservatism that every man or people compelled to suffer a notable change avoids the shame of extinction."