Quotes about American Party

Ann Coulter

Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats' primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the American.

Abraham Lincoln

I am not, nor ever have been, connected with the party called the Know-Nothing party, or the party calling themselves the American party.

Larry J. Sabato

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

Ulysses S. Grant

No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God.

Henry W. Davis

Congress has a constitutional right to an authoritative voice in declaring and proscribing the foreign policy of the United States ... and it is the constitutional duty of the President to respect that policy ...

Jeff Sessions

I think that the real future of the American party is to bring in working Americans.

Molly Worthen

Americans’ opinions on immigration have always been connected to their broader ideas about the role of government authority. The platform of 19th-century nativists contained more than racist invective. It also proposed strong states’ rights, a smaller standing army and tight limits on government expenses — all to preserve the American ideal of the independent yeoman free to defend his homestead from crowned tyrants and foreign invaders.

The Nativists at first had a pathological fear of the government – not unlike the radical right of the late 20th century—and initially maintained a secret society culture (see “Know Nothings”). Later they had their own minor political parties like the American Party.

Philip Hone

The election was held today. Besides the two great party tickets, there is a new party which has polled most unexpectedly five or six thousand votes. They call themselves the American party, and are opposed to the extension of suffrage to foreigners; ... with this powerful demonstration of popular opinion in their favor, I should not be surprised if ere long they should swallow up the Whig party. This new movement has occasioned a great defection from both parties.

American Party Quotes