 | Leon D. Epstein - Political parties - 1986 - 458 pages
...of "the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally" and of the inseparability of that spirit "from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind." Farewell Address of September 17, 1796, in Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History... | |
 | 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:... | |
 | Shlomo Slonim - Law - 1990 - 398 pages
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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... 
