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 radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”
    —John Caldwell Calhoun (1782–1850)