Character Quote by Joseph Addison

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

— John Perry Barlow

Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

— Alexander Hamilton

Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs…

— George Washington

This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under…

— George Washington

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

— Harold Wilson

We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals.

— Nigel Hawthorne

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and…

— George Washington

Bad politics make for bad morals.

— Joseph Brodsky

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“any significant and lasting transformations of society require significant changes in the moral fiber of individual human beings; for as long as greed, hatred,…

— Dalai Lama XIV