"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 the Whigs as an anti-national party... Believing that the policy of the party was such as must destroy th…"

"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…"

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