"A body of men connected with high rank and property, bound together by hereditary feelings, party ties, as well as hi…"

"You may observe yourself...what a difference there is between the true strength of this nation and the fictitious one…"

"The party with which I acted had, by the malevolent and unthinking been reproached, and by the wise and good always e…"

"Locke was not typical of Whig argument: most Whigs argued not from natural law, as he did, but from historic legal pr…"

"I look upon an Orangeman," said Coningsby, "as a pure Whig; the only professor and practiser of unadulterated Whiggism."

"[A]s a rule a man not born a Liberal, may become a Liberal; but to be a Whig, he must be a born Whig."

"I have always said the first Whig was the Devil."

"The ‘old Presbyterians’. This was the oldest section of the party in two senses: it derived from the minority which h…"

"The ‘country Opposition’. A majority of the Whigs can be placed in this category, which again became an important fac…"

"[T]here are...powerful Motives to make the Whigs open their Arms to embrace all Strangers: One to strengthen their Pa…"