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Whigs

«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.»
«'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'»
«The right honourable gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.»
«I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Devil | Keywords: Whig, Whigs
«Dear Bathurst . . . was a man to my very heart's content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he was a very good hater.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: hater, rogue, Whig, Whigs
«I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress; but I hate to see a Whig in a parson's gown.»
«A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.»