I want to be as conservative as the Constitution of the United States, and I'd like to be as progressive as Theodore Roosevelt, and as liberal as Lincoln.

World Topics Year Book: 1966 (Tangley Oaks Educational Center: Lake Bluff, IL, 1966), p. 321 | I'm trying to be as conservative as the Constitution, as liberal as Lincoln, and as progressive as Teddy Roosevelt. | William V. Shannon, "George Romney: Holy and Hopeful", in Harper's Magazine, vol. 234, no. 1,401 (February, 1967), p. 56 | I am as conservative as the Constitution, as liberal as Lincoln, and as progressive as Theodore Roosevelt before the Bull Moose movement.