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• The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by… — Thomas Jefferson
• The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield
• The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt,… — Thomas Jefferson
• There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may… — Josiah Wedgwood
• We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think… — Horace Greeley
• The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and… — Thomas Jefferson
• The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and… — Thomas Jefferson
• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare… — William Hazlitt

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