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)

“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)