#republic

When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#britons #brought #europe #fled #formed

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#conservatives #debate #libertarians #needs #party

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican. ↗

— James Denton

#pro-choice #republican #things #those #typically

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that. ↗

— James Denton

#hard-line #i #lot #more #open-minded

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#committee #fact #in the past #into #million

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#any #cut #i #i am #match

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#acquisitions #california #compromises #concessions #conquest

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. ↗

— George Washington

#establishments #form #government #grown #hostile

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#always #america #democratic #despot #embrace

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#because #government #i #more #people