Quotes About Whigs

#1. The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. I have written on all sorts of subjects ... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

David Hume

#3. [T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis , has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.

Godfrey Higgins

#4. When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

#5. Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs,
Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.

Jonathan Swift

#6. In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.

Anthony Trollope

#7. The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

William Browne

#9. We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.

Benjamin F. Wade

#10. Those who are not Free, can't even climb a Tree ... Forget about them being what they want to Be!-RVM

R.v.m.

#11. The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".

Herbert Butterfield

#12. Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

Poppy Z. Brite

#13. To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness. Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degress of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

Carrie Brownstein

#14. The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

Max Beerbohm

#15. The Holy Spirit can rejuvenate a tired Christian, captivate an indifferent believer, and empower a dry church.

Billy Graham

#16. Rage can easily convert to hatred. There is a wish to control the bad object in order to avoid persecution or fear. This control is achieved by the development of obsessive control mechanisms, which psychopathologically regulate the repression of aggression in such an individual.

Sam Vaknin

#17. There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

Will Rogers

#18. But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

Elizabeth Berg