John Wilson Croker Quotes

In truth, the parties of Whig [Liberal] and Tory [Conservative] are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names, or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles, and Liberals.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

The division of Whig and Tory... is the most salutary of all divisions and ought, therefore, to be fostered instead of being amalgamated; for take away this, and some more dangerous principle of division will take its place.

The worst enemy of the new radicals are the old liberals.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

You know that no son of mine could be a goddamn liberal.

The American people will always be progressive as well as conservative.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

I have always said, the first Whig [Liberal] was the Devil.

I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party—democratic or totalitarian—through study and comparison of principles.

Actually I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.

Everybody in Mariposa is neither liberal or conservative or else is both.

Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.