Whig Party

Famous quotes containing the words whig and/or party:

“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 whiffling, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)