The Conservative Party - Britain's largest centre-right party sets out its policies and provides information on its campaigns, groups and representatives. Allows one to join up online, subscribe to email briefings, and locate a local branch. Led by Michael Howard.
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Conservative Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Conservative
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Conservative How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Conservative
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Conservative It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Conservative
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Conservative CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Conservative
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Conservative Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Conservative
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Conservative "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Conservative
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Conservative blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Conservative
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Conservative Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Conservative
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Conservative If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Conservative
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Conservative I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Conservative
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Conservative When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Conservative
