Abraham Lincoln Quotes

We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had tremendous influence on generations of American because, even if people disagreed with them, they admired them because they made very strong commitments to things they believed in.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

We went in ... Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. We came out of it Republicans.

I have only 2 regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

I am not, nor ever have been, connected with the party called the Know-Nothing party, or the party calling themselves the American party.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

Since Ronald Reagan we have had this assumption in the United States that the Republicans are the party of the military, the Republicans are the party of patriotism, the Republicans are the party of American values.

I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for [Tomas] Jefferson, because this is a Hamiltonian moment, and he's the rock star of the minute with a great musical.

I'm a proud Reagan conservative.

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept this and accused him rightly of being obsessed with the English constitution.

We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.

I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.

Truthfully, with the Republicans, I don't see that much wrong with them.

The more that happens that makes sure liberals and liberalism remain a minority, the better off the world is gonna be and the better off this country is gonna be.

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.