“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried”
Abraham Lincoln
“To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
Michael Oakeshott
“Morales is an untried political leader. He's certainly someone who can command the street. Now, can he make the transition from an agitator to an executive?”
Riordan Roett
“It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.”
Xenophon
“The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.”
David Mamet
“Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve the soul as this freedom and this necessity to be kind.”
William Saroyan
