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Quote by Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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In the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

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Life
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Abraham Lincoln
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day
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Abraham Lincoln
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Negative politics have always been around. – Karl Rove

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Politics

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the 04 elections is that politics is a word game. – Eric Liu

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Politics

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasnt responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. – Claire McCaskill

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Politics

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Politics

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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. – Sir Walter Scott

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Charisma

And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that. – Clare Short

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Anger

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. – Aristotle

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Life