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Quote by Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, bu

What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure. – Abraham Lincoln

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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

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That mans the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. – John Maynard Keynes

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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. – Mark Twain

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Our strength grows out of our weakness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The future is called “perhaps,” which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. – James Madison

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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. – William Robertson Smith

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