Imperial British Conservative

Famous quotes containing the words imperial, british and/or conservative:

    “The imperial votaress passed on,
    In maiden meditation, fancy-free.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,—because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)