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• The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

  James Madison

  Wisdom, Politics, Paper

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• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Two, Political, Pelicans

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• Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Crush, Party, Voting

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1836). “Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...”, p.281

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• I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

  John Adams

  Party, Understanding, Tongue

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.432

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• Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Communication, Media

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Two, Interesting

  "The NS Interview: Noam Chomsky". Interview with Alyssa Mcdonald, www.newstatesman.com. September 13, 2010.

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• The Constitution is brilliant for accountability; for posing factions against each other, to fight amongst themselves in government, which protects our liberty. But also in ensuring that decision-making is made by those who the people can hold accountable.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Government, People

  Source: time.com

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• The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.

  Gerry Spence

  Voice, America, People

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.318, Macmillan

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• It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Country, Evil, Citizens

  Speech to the National Convention on April 15, 1794. "Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just", Volume 2, p. 367, 1908.

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• Power factions fight back with lies.

  Julian Assange

  Lying, Fighting

  "'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Hero, Men

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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• In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Two, Political

  Interview with Adam Jones, adamjones.freeservers.com. February 20, 1990.

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• If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Issues, Guy

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

  James Madison

  Believe, Rights, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

  James Madison

  Stronger, Tyranny Of The Majority, May

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.110, Arcturus Publishing

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• As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.

  Damian Thompson

  Brain, Battle, Different

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• Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement

  Fethullah Gulen

  Agreement, Tolerance, Schism

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.56, Tughra Books

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• Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

  Moses Finley

  Evil, Greek, Common

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 44, 1985.

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• Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

  William Shakespeare

  Equality, Two

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus”, p.88

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• Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.

  A. J. Liebling

  Games, Play, New Orleans

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• Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honesty, Two, Credit

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

  Virgil

  Opposites, Unity, Wavering

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• The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities; and that, however, for a time, faction may convulse the nation, and passion and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds, all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected.

  Henry Clay

  Party, Passion, Reflection

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: The Rising Statesman, 1797-1814”, p.537, University Press of Kentucky

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Volcanoes, Burnt Out

  Speech on Petition of the Unitarians, 11 May 1792

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