Being Quote by Eugene Jarecki

I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

— Hillary Clinton

If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of indifferent to…

— Grover Norquist

Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.

— Robert Dallek

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And…

— Charles H. Percy

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

— Clint Eastwood

When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to…

— Star Parker

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and…

— Christopher Hitchens

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,…

— Simon Mainwaring

What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of…

— James Madison

the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration…

— Marya Mannes

“Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman