“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.”
David Hume
“I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil”
Samuel Johnson
“Now one was either Tory or Whig; it was either dependence or independence.”
Caesar Rodney
“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.”
William Hazlitt
“A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.”
Wallace Stegner
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”
Toni Morrison
“If all it takes is an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, how come AOL haven't written any Shakespeare yet?”
Andy Dingley
