I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. — Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful... THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON - Page 224by George Washington - 1837Full view - About this book
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1860 - 372 pages
...rights of person and property. I have already intimated to you, the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical...discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive Tfiew, and warn you, in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 556 pages
...look for ancestry beyond that period,2 — and we may say, in the most literal sense, we 1 " Let me warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. ... In governments of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 566 pages
...look for ancestry beyond that period,2 — and we may say, in the most literal sense, we 1 "Let me warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. ... In governments of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 560 pages
...ancestry beyond that period,2 — and we may say, in the most literal sense, we i " Let me warn yon in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. ... In governments of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst... | |
| Leon D. Epstein - Political parties - 1986 - 458 pages
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| Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...identified and warned against were nature run wild. For instance, he commented: "This spirit [of party], unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having...root in the strongest passions of the human mind." 64 The conditions for growth reflected Washington's beliefs about human nature. He said, for example:... | |
| James Sundquist - Political Science - 2011 - 370 pages
...celebrated farewell address, President George Washington echoed these sentiments, warning his countrymen "in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally," which he called "the worst enemy" of democratic governments everywhere. 2 And Washington's successor,... | |
| William W. Freehling - History - 1994 - 340 pages
...Washington's Farewell Address of 1796 exemplified this antiparty viewpoint. Washington warned his countrymen "in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party." Party agitation, he declared, "is seen in its greatest rank" in republican governments "and is truly... | |
| Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...of person and property. 19. I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical...baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally. 20. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions... | |
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