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  • I am neither a Whig nor aTory. My politics are described in one word, and that word is England.

    - Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
      Speech, House of Commons.

  • A wiseToryand a wise Whig, I believe, will agree. Their principles are the same, though their modes of thinking are different.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Written note given to Boswell, May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

  • Come, gie's a sang, Montgomery cry'd, And lay your disputes a'aside; What signifies't for folks to chide For what's been done before them? Let Whig and Torya'agree, Whig and Tory,Whig and Tory, Whig and Tory a'agree To drop their whigmigmorum; Let Whig and Torya'agree To spend this night wi'mirth and glee, And cheerfu'sing, alang wi'me, The Reel o' Tullochgorum.

    -John Skinner
    'Tullochgorum', stanza1.

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