Conservative Government

Famous quotes containing the words conservative government, conservative and/or government:

    “A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)