I was born a Tory, am a Tory and shall die a Tory. I never yet heard that it was any part of the faith of a Tory to take the institutions and liberties, the laws and customs which this country has evolved over centuries and merge them with those of eight other nations into […]
Political Parties Quotes
The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
A wise Tory and a wise Whig, will, I believe, agree. Their principles are the same, though their modes of thinking are different. A high Tory makes government unintelligible; it is lost in the clouds. A violent Whig makes it impracticable: he is for allowing so much liberty to every man, that there is not […]
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 variety of cheeses?
Dr. Johnson now said, a certain eminent political friend of ours (Burke) was wrong, in his maxim of sticking to a certain set of “men” on all occasions. “I can see that a man may do right to stick to a “party”,” said he; “that is to say, he is a “Whig”, or he is […]
We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people still can get rich.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
Republicans might be heathens and out to destroy all that we hold dear, but that doesn’t mean we need to take them seriously. Or be bitter or vituperative just because they are swine. I think one can still have friends who are Republicans.
The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.
