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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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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day
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Abraham Lincoln
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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln

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Mothers
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me. – George Papandreou

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I dont feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that Im a gay man. – Tony Kushner

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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. – William Hague

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Family is conflict and its something that we all relate to. – Bill Cosby

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Youre an expatriate. Youve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around caf?s. – Ernest Hemingway

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A joke is a very serious thing. – Winston Churchill

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