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Party Quotes by George Washington
- A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt [the…
- Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The common and continual…
- I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.
- The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the…
- In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting…
- The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has…
- However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by…
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- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. — Lauren Bacall
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- The Republican Party is extremely pro-women. — Michele Bachmann
- Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already. — Michele Bachmann
- The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. — Michele Bachmann
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- The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once… — Michele Bachmann
- The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton