Famous quotes containing the words rat and/or parties:
“When a rat crosses a street, everyone shouts and beats it.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,—because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)