What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the countrys cause. – Abraham Lincoln
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
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. – Norman Tebbit