The Conservative Party Archive - Kept by Oxford University, the party's official archives provide academics with privileged access to historic party documents. Details of the archive can be found here.
ConservativeManifesto.com - Conservative Party manifestos for all General Elections from 1900 to the present.
BBC News - Vote 2001 - Summaries the policies on which the Conservative Party fought the election, and provides biographies of nearly all Conservative candidates.
Conservative History Group - From November 2002, the group will promote debate, knowledge and discussion of Conservative Party politics through the ages, publish the Conservative History Journal and hold regular speaker meetings in London. Site provides membership details.
Primrose League - Organisation that worked from 1883 to the 1960's to increase the popularity of traditional Tory policies. The site provides a history of the organisation and of some of its members.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel History Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) History
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford History We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt History
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) History Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) History
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball History The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre History
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi History Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) History
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) History "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) History
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville History Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi History
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst History What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) History
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 History "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN History
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki History "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte History
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) History "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) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio History
