I mean a temperate, but firm one: steady to its friends, just to its enemies, and inflexible to all.

"When compelled to yield, it should be by the force of reason, and never by the power of agitation.

Its measures should be actuated by a sense of what is right, and not what is expedient, for to concede is to recede--to recede is to evince weakness--and to betray weakness is to invite attack.
"I am a stranger here.

I do not understand this new word, Conservatism.
I comprehend the other two, Toryism and Liberalism.

The one is a monarchical, and the other a republican word.