(4 quotes found)
“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