Conservative Governments

Famous quotes containing the words conservative and/or governments:

    “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)

    “Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)