“Were Hannibal Hamlin alive today, he would be delighted that his efforts at achieving liberty for all has led to a time when Americans could vote for a president not based on color, but based on capability, character and intellect. But he would be disappointed in the abandonment by his party (in title) of its initial values.”
kristan peters-hamlin
“To answer my children’s question, I asked them to identify the values of the Lincoln-era Democrats and Republicans. They correctly identified that the slave states (then the Democrats) stood for states’ rights and against civil rights for African-Americans. Lincoln’s and Hamlin’s views on the issue of states’ rights can best be summarized by Lincoln’s response in the Douglas debates: “There is no right to do what’s wrong.””
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“While Democrats have all the same vices as the Republicans, they are without the cunningness, viciousness, and genetic evil.”
Bobby W. Miller
“These are serious concerns about the Republican approach, ... Americans deserve answers independent of politics. That's why Democrats and Republicans preferred an independent commission for investigating 9/11 and we should be following that model now.”
Harry Reid
“Socialism is Communism in it's infancy”
Linda DiGrazia
“The narrow, no-nonsense skeptic is every bit as naive as the breezy-brained New Age believer.”
Tom Robbins
