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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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In the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

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Life
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Abraham Lincoln
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. – Abraham Lincoln

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Drinking
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln

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Hypocrisy
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conservatism

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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Conservatism

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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Conservatism

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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Conservatism

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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that were looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. – William Shatner

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After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy. – John Pierce

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In God we trust, all others we virus scan. – Author Unknown

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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. – John Philpot Curran

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