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Faction Quotes by James Madison
- In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to…
- Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided…
- The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according…
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there…
- Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence…
- The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in…
- Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to…
- The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the…
- It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
- Liberty is to faction what air is to fire...
- Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish…
More Faction Quotes
- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
- Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the… — Alexander Hamilton
- More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political)… — Jonathan Rauch
- In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for… — Edmund Burke
- In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly… — James Madison
- Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is… — James Madison
- The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees… — James Madison
- Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. — William Butler Yeats