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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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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. – Abraham Lincoln

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. – Gail Sheehy

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There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. – Stephen Carter

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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – John Maynard Keynes

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Im a strange mixture of my mothers curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mothers father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. – Rupert Murdoch

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Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips. – Terri Guillemets

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I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage. – Mark Ruffalo

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