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)

    “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)