Famous quotes containing the words republican and/or whip:
“A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain “Young Men’s Republican Club,” that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A gentleman’s word is like a touch of a whip to a racehorse.”
—Chinese proverb.