“Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”
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![“This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest…” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/10e/george-washington-257_different_this-spirit-of-party-unfortunately-is-in_1573651.jpg)
![“[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe9/george-washington-257_access_the-spirit-of-party-opens-the-door-to-fo_3236018.jpg)
