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  • “It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “When a people are so divided as to be governed by faction, it is a sign they are near their end. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Samuel Cooper · View
  • “Faction is the enemy of liberty. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Letter to Gouverneur Morris · View
  • “Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: those who fear and distrust the people... and those who identify with them. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Henry Lee · View
  • “The Constitution was never designed to accommodate the spirit of faction. ”
    John Adams , Notes on Government · View
  • “When a people are so divided as to be governed by faction, it is a sign they are near their end. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Samuel Cooper · View
  • “There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. But faction is the enemy of liberty. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Letter to Gouverneur Morris · View
  • “The spirit of faction weakens the bonds of civic friendship and undermines the common good. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Benjamin Rush · View
  • “The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , First Inaugural Address · View
  • “The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points ... have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “A zeal for different opinions ... has divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “The mischiefs of faction are not to be cured by abolishing liberty, but by controlling its effects. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “United we stand, divided we fall. ”
    Patrick Henry , Speech in the Virginia Convention · View