What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. – Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. – Abraham Lincoln
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey