Tories quotes

The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, ForTories own no argument but force; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.

-William Browne
Literary  Anecdotes.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'Charles Dickens', collected in Inside the Whale (1940).

All the sensibleTories that I ever knew were either Jacobites or became Whigs; those that remained Tories remained fools.

- Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
Memoirs of the Reign of King George III (published1845).