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• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
• Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection… — Alexander Hamilton
• More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles,… — Jonathan Rauch
• In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will… — Edmund Burke
• In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may… — James Madison
• Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad… — James Madison
• The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into… — James Madison
• Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. — William Butler Yeats
• By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole,… — James Madison
• A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt… — James Madison
• Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to… — James Madison
• The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is… — James Madison

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