Edward Mandell House Quotes

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

Never again should we Democrats wear the livery of the conservative.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

In truth, the parties of Whig [Liberal] and Tory [Conservative] are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names, or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles, and Liberals.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

In time the Democratic party will fade away and we will have a capitalistic party and a socialistic party.

The dilemma of modern progressive politics is that you are always fighting on two fronts: The conservatives on the right, and the conservatives on the left.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

I’m extremely conservative but I’m not mad at anybody about it.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

Bush is no conservative.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!