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" It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms ; kindles the animosity of one part against another ; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. "
Porcupine's Works: Containing Various Writings and Selections, Exhibiting a ... - Page 287
by William Cobbett - 1801
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The New Republic, 1783-1830

Rebecca Stefoff - History - 2005 - 146 pages
...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. It serves...public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments...
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Liberty in Troubled Times: A Libertarian Guide to Laws, Politics and Society ...

James Walsh - Art - 2004 - 353 pages
...this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. Washington warned that partisanship agitates the community with "ill-founded jealousies...another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection." The familiar lines of American political partisanship—Republican-versus-Democrat, conservative-versus-liberal—were...
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The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of ...

Bruce Ackerman - History - 2005 - 424 pages
.... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. It serves always to distract the public councils and...the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another....
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A Defining Moment: The Presidential Election of 2004

William J. Crotty - Business & Economics - 2005 - 286 pages
...Four years later, Washington renounced the presidency in his Farewell Address: "[The spirit of party] agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies...kindles the animosity of one part against another; ferments occasional riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which...
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The Life of George Washington, Volume 4

Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
...enfeeble the Public administration.— lt agitates the comniunity with ill-founded jealousies and faise alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against...another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. lt opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access [to the Government...
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Common Sense

Wardell Lindsay - 2006 - 24 pages
...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. It serves...the door to foreign influence and corruption, which 14 find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus...
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Political Order in Changing Societies

Samuel P. Huntington - Political Science - 2006 - 516 pages
...Party, Washington said: 7. Maurice Duverger, Political Parties (New York, John Wiley. 1954) . p. 426. serves always to distract the Public Councils, and...occasionally riot and insurrection. — It opens the doors to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the Government itself...
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Florida: Leading the Transformation of American Politics

Max Linn - 2006 - 131 pages
...solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party." The spirit of party, said Washington, "serves always to distract the public councils and...jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one party against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence...
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Democracy, Equality, and Justice: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Political Economy

John E. Hill - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 290 pages
...dangerous for the foreign policy of the country. Factionalism, the spirit of party, Washington wrote: "opens the door to foreign influence and corruption,...find a facilitated access to the government itself th rough the channels of party passion. 'Ihus the policy and the will of one country are subjected...
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George Washington for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities

Brandon Marie Miller - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 147 pages
...It serves always to distract the Public Councils. . . . It agitates the Community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another. . . . There is the opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration...
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