Factions Quotes

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So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed… — Andrew Jackson
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an… — Damian Thompson
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia. — George Ayittey
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my… — Thomas Francis Meagher
'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...… — Socrates
Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of… — Plato
Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of… — George Washington
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as… — Edmund Burke
Factions are a sign of illness in a party. — Ernest Mandel
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction — Aristotle
Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who… — Maya Angelou
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged… — Benjamin Franklin
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of… — Richard M. Nixon
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of… — Barry Goldwater
The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of… — Noam Chomsky
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some… — Michael K. Simpson
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from… — Fisher Ames
The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every… — Gerry Spence
The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White… — Ishmael Reed

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