Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization.When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  Singin'and Swingin'and Getting Merry Like Christmas, ch.9.

To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.

-Anonymous
  In the Washingtonian, Nov.

Harold Macmillan held his party together by not allowing his left wing to see what his right wing was doing.

-Baroness
Attributed.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

-Austen,Jane
Sense and Sensibility, vol.2, ch.6.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.25.

Labour is the Party of law and order in Britain todayötough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.

-Blair,Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton)
  Speech as Shadow Home Secretary, Labour Party Conference, Sep.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

-Bolingbroke, Henry StJohn, 1st Viscount
  Idea of a Patriot King. Published in1749.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Table Talk (published1835), entry for18 Dec.

The party's over, it's time to call it a day.

-Comden, Betty pseudonym of  Elizabeth Cohen
  'The Party's Over' (with  Adolphe Green, music by Jule Styne).

Party is organized opinion.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Speech, Oxford, 25 Nov.

   Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  'Echoes of the  Jazz  Age', Scribner's Magazine, Nov.

Some of us will fight and fight again to save the party we love.We will fight and fight againtobring back sanityand honestyand dignity, so that our party, with its great past, may retain its glory and its greatness.

-Gaitskell, Hugh
  Denouncing unilateralists trying to gain control of the party. Labour Party conference speech, Oct.

Poetryisnotanexpressionofthepartyline.It'sthattimeof night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

-Ginsberg, Allen
Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

A great partyought nottobe brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.

-Hailsham, Quintin (McGarel) Hogg, 2nd Viscount
  On the Profumo affair, BBC  T V,13  Jun.

He serves his party best who serves his country best.

-Hayes,J Milton
  Inaugural address, 5 Mar.

If I'dseenmeataparty,I'dneverhavegoneupandmet me.

-Hoffman, Dustin
  In Dateline, NBC  TV broadcast, 8 Mar.

Honour is not the exclusive property of any political party.

-Hoover, Herbert Clark
  In Christian Science Monitor, 21 May.

Heard there was a party.Came.

-Munston,Lady Peel
Explaining her presence after staggering to the nearest house, that of film actor  John Gilbert, when she was involved English dramatist  and  jeweller,  of  Dutch  extraction.  His  seven plays  were  among  the  first  to  put  middle-class  rather   than royal characters on the English stage.

While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

-McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)
  Speech at  Wheeling, West Virginia, 9 Feb, which marked the beginning of the McCarthy 'witch hunts' for communists.

   When a man reaches old age, he will die and the same is true of a party.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  Collected in Selected Works (1975), vol.4.