Common Quote by James Madison

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful…

— James Madison

[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are…

— James Madison

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and…

— James Madison

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity,…

— James Madison

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

— Ludwig von Mises

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

— James Madison

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

— John Adams

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

— Norman Mailer

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

— William Shakespeare

Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will…

— John Adams

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of…

— James Madison