Ferrel Guillory Quotes

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

To abolish all distinctions of party may not be practicable, perhaps not desirable, in a free government

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

The appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all [political] parties.

There are but two divisions of party in the United States; and he is a very weak or very presumptuously vain man who can think of organizing a third party that shall rule them both.

Political parties are no longer ideological. They are social markers and cultural identifies for people who want to see where they belong.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

We don't like to deal with people who are trying to kill the revolution. You need to hire a Republican!

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

The people who vote in the primaries are at the ideological edge of their party.