| 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... | |
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