Afghan Quote by Mark Lanegan

Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations…

— Allen C. Guelzo

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

— Jonathan Swift

The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions…

— Herbert Butterfield

“Sumner’s entrance into the Senate was into the midst of a hostile camp. On either side of the chamber enemies confronted him. Southern Whigs…

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“ Tickler : I hate novelties. Is the prosecution mania about to subside, think you? Now-a-days, every word is said to be actionable. You…

— John Wilson

“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates…

— Benjamin F. Wade

“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the…

— J. Christopher Herold

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their…

— Benjamin Disraeli

In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be…

— Anthony Trollope

“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few…

— Edward Rutherfurd