DEMOCRATIC PARTY

“Every Rebel guerrilla and jayhawker, every man who ran to Canada to avoid the draft, every bounty-hunter, every deserter, every cowardly sneak that ran from danger and disgraced his flag, every man who loves slavery and hates liberty… and every villain, of whatever name or crime, who loves power more than justice, slavery more than freedom, is a Democrat.”

—JAMES GARFIELD

“Its history reminds me of the boulder in the stream of progress, impeding and resisting its onward flow and moving only by the force that it resists.”

—BENJAMIN HARRISON

“When I hear a Democrat boasting himself of the age of his party I feel like reminding him that there are other organized evils in the world older than the Democratic Party.”

—BENJAMIN HARRISON

“A gentleman told me recently that he doubted I would vote for the Angel Gabriel if found at the head of the Democratic Party, to which I responded that the Angel Gabriel would never be found in such company. Speaking quite dispassionately, and simply as a historian, the Democrats can be trusted invariably to walk in the darkness even when to walk in the light would be manifestly to their advantage.”

—THEODORE ROOSEVELT

“[A]lmost every Democrat thinks the sovereign remedy for any of our ills is the appropriation of public money.”

—CALVIN COOLIDGE