"Whiggery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was always asserted, with emphasis and even with acrimony, that he was not a Whig. Gladstone, who did not much like Whiggery, though he often used Whigs, laid it down that "to be a Whig a man must be a born Whig," and I believe that the doctrine is absolutely sound. But Palmerston was born and bred a Tory, and from 1807 to 1830 held office in Tory Administrations. ...
— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell |
