Quotes about Republican

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

If republican government is to be responsible, it must be responsive to the people and answerable to their will. But if it is to be responsible in the more positive sense, it must go beyond mere responsiveness and be able to serve the people's true interests or their reasonable will, even if this course of conduct is not immediately popular.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.