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)

    “Nor the tame will, nor timid brain,
    Nor heavy knitting of the brow
    Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly limb
    And threw him up to laugh on the bough;
    No government appointed him.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)