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• [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 without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.

  James Madison

  Growing Up, Fall, Views

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

  George Washington

  Government, Law, Names

  George Washington (1838). “Monuments of Washington's patriotism: containing a fac simile of his publick accounts kept during the revolutionary war; and some of the documents connected with his military command and civil administration; together with an eulogium on the character of Washington, by W. Jackson”, p.15

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• 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 perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

  George Washington

  Country, Revenge, Party

  United States. President, George Washington, United States (1825). “The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens”, p.104

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• I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Brave, Divergent

  "Divergent and the Gospel (Part II): Vanquishing Weakness, Cultivating Strength" by Jacob Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

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

  James Madison

  Men, Differences, Causes

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.49, Hackett Publishing

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• I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Thinking, America, Appeals

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• In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, America, Secret

  Democracy in America vol. 2, ch. 4 (1835) (translation by Henry Reeve)

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• I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Dream, Country, Farewell

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• We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth (p. 47), 2011.

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• Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Trust, Real, Emotional

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• Faction before blood.

  Veronica Roth

  Blood

  Veronica Roth (2014). “The Traitor: A Divergent Story”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

  Craig Reucassel

  Suicide, Islamic, Movement

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• Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

  Mary Douglas

  Leader, Tense, Threat

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• We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

  Thom Gunn

  Reading

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• Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

  Bill Vaughan

  Independent, Iraq, May

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• Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.

  Veronica Roth

  Religious, Race, Evil

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1)”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

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• Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Long, Goal

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• It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Law

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.

  Augustus

  Mean, Army, Order

  "The Deeds of the Divine Augustus". Book by Augustus, 1924.

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• The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government.

  James Madison

  Party, Government, Regulation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.49, Coventry House Publishing

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• In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Military, Eye

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.249

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• Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Fighting, Philosopher

  "The Letters of W.B. Yeats".

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• Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.46

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• We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.

  Veronica Roth

  Kindness, Smart, Struggle

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• Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Party, Evil, Political

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