Question

If you were a conservative, you would look for guidance about how to live by keeping in mind the lessons of

Answer 1

The answer is the past. It is because in order to learn, you need to realize the things you have done in the past and to make sure that the mistakes you had gone through in the past, will never repeat on the future as you are able to realize your faults and failures and it is a way of having guidance to keep in mind, so that it will not happen again.