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 conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.”
    —Bernard Devoto (1897–1955)