Conservative Government

Famous quotes containing the words conservative and/or government:

“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)

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)