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Parties Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
- The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats…
- The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to…
- Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country,…
- Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially…
More Parties Quotes
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest… — Roseanne Barr
- The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry
- The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them? — Drew Barrymore
- It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It… — Glenn Beck
- The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes. — Benazir Bhutto
- In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for… — Mary J. Blige
- By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but… — Mary J. Blige
- Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College… — Michael Bloomberg