 | 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 - Law - 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
...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...baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally. 20. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions... | |
 | Gary L. Gregg - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 266 pages
...assessment in his Farewell Address in September 1796 when he noted that the spirit of party and faction "is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind." But such a spirit remained for Washington one of the greatest enemies of free government and it would... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...alliances, with any portlon of the foreign world. 12273 President's Address Let me ... warn you hi WASHINGTON Ned 1901-1976 12274 'My Foolish Heart' There's a line between love and fascination That's... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1999 - 314 pages
...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...and -warn you, in the most solemn 'manner, against Hhe baneful effect of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from... | |
 | Alexander Yakobson - History - 1999 - 264 pages
...Washington had to say on the subject of "spirit of party" in his farewell address: "Let me now. . . warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party... It serves always to distract public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the... | |
 | Philip Davies - Political Science - 1999 - 258 pages
...change his opinion even after eight years as President, using his farewell address to warn his listeners 'in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally','4 American political parties developed nevertheless, if hesitatingly and subject to considerable... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...pretexts I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to founding them on geographical discriminations. Let...of Party, generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is insepatable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists... | |
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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... 
