What is conservatism It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried
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I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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