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  • “The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man... A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government... have, in turn, divided mankind. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “The spirit of faction is a natural enemy to public virtue and the common good. ”
    John Adams , Diary Entry · View
  • “United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which will ruin us. ”
    Patrick Henry , Speech in the Virginia Convention · View
  • “The Constitution must guard against the spirit of faction, lest it destroy the very liberties it seeks to protect. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Convention Notes · View
  • “Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · 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
  • “If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Francis Hopkinson · View
  • “Those who fear and distrust the people... have been the enemies of liberty. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Henry Lee · View
  • “Liberty ought to be the direct aim of every government, but faction will always seek to corrupt it. ”
    Patrick Henry , Virginia Convention Speech · View
  • “The Constitution was never designed to accommodate the spirit of faction. ”
    John Adams , Notes on Government · View
  • “The turbulence of democracies has been ascribed to the spirit of faction. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 9 · View
  • “It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. ”
    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
  • “Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “Factional spirit is incompatible with the peace and prosperity of a united people. ”
    John Jay , Federalist No. 2 · View
  • “The causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · 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
  • “It is of great importance to the union that the people should be united in their views and interests, not divided by faction. ”
    John Jay , Federalist No. 2 · View
  • “United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which will ruin us. ”
    Patrick Henry , Speech in the Virginia Convention · View
  • “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties... This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Jonathan Jackson · View
  • “Faction is the enemy of liberty because it seeks power without principle. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Convention Notes · 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
  • “It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “Faction is the mark of a declining republic, not a thriving one. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Samuel Cooper · View
  • “The division of the republic into two great parties... is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Jonathan Jackson · View
  • “Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by factional spirit. ”
    John Jay , Federalist No. 2 · View
  • “The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils have been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 9 · View
  • “The moment faction takes root, the republic is in danger. It is not the form, but the spirit of government that preserves liberty. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Constitutional Convention Notes · 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 will tear the republic apart if we do not guard against it. ”
    Patrick Henry , Virginia Convention Speech · View
  • “Faction is the enemy of liberty. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Letter to Gouverneur Morris · View
  • “Distrust naturally creates distrust... by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by factional spirit. ”
    John Jay , Federalist No. 2 · View
  • “It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “Faction is the precursor to tyranny. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Samuel Cooper · View
  • “The moment faction takes root, the republic is in danger. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Constitutional Convention Notes · View
  • “The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. ”
    James Madison , Federalist Papers No. 10 · View
  • “No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and not improbably corrupt his integrity. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “In a pure democracy, there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention. ”
    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
  • “The Constitution is designed to break and control the violence of faction. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · 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
  • “Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · 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
  • “The spirit of faction weakens the bonds of civic friendship and undermines the common good. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Benjamin Rush · View
  • “The spirit of party serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “The spirit of faction is a natural disease of free governments and the source of their corruption. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 15 · View
  • “The alternate domination of one faction over another ... leads at length to a more permanent despotism. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · 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 instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed; and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “The spirit of faction, which is so apt to contaminate the public councils, has been the mortal disease under which popular governments have everywhere perished. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 15 · View
  • “The spirit of faction is the enemy of public virtue and the ally of selfish ambition. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Jonathan Trumbull · 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
  • “The instability of laws is one of the greatest mischiefs of faction. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View