Famous quotes containing the words republicans and/or opposed:
“Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can’t see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote—eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.”
—François Guizot (1787–1874)
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