Care Quote by Horace Greeley

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong…

— Thomas Jefferson

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is…

— Elbert Guillory

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be…

— Anthony Trollope

“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.…

— Elbert Guillory

“The new Republican Party was formed to denounce the act and stop the expansion of slavery, and the abolitionists began to clean their rifles and…

— Andrew Himes

I chose the Republican Party because of the principles the party was founded on. This was the party of freedom. This was the party…

— Ryan Frazier

In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the new party…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Sumner asserted that without equality of citizens before the law and full consent of the governed, a government could not be considered republican. It…

— Richard White

Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the…

— Rafael Cruz

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

— Barack Obama

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are…

— Anonymous