James Altham Quotes
I have never really liked Lowell Weiker personally, but I think that those of us who are conservative have wasted entirely too much effort fighting him over the years.
Liberal Republican U.S. Senator, Lowell P. Weiker Jr., was about to be nominated by the Connecticut party convention for a fourth term as U. S. Senator:
James F. Altham Jr., Republican Chairman, Hamden County, CT, Speech, State Republican Convention, Hartford, CT, July 16, 1988
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Eldest son of Robert Walpole
So far as he was concerned, Republican moderates—his own party members—were liberals. Anyone who did not support the extreme Conservative agenda, was an enemy and a liberal. He and the Tea Party drove almost all the moderate Republicans out of the party.
Sir James Altham (died 1617) was an English judge and briefly a member of parliament. A friend of Lord Chancellor Bacon, Altham opposed Coke but advanced the laws of equity behind the fastness of the Exchequer courts, so long considered almost inferior. Through advanced Jacobean royalism he helped to prosecute the King's enemies and centralise royal power of taxation.