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[highlight-text]What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
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[highlight-text]A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning conservers at night. Reform is affirmative conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort reform for truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson