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Calvin Coolidge1 quote

Since its very outset, it has been found necessary to conduct our Government by means of political parties. That system would not have survived from generation to generation if it had not been fundamentally sound and provided the best instrumentalities for the most complete expression of the popular will. It is not necessary to claim that it has always worked perfectly. It is enough to know that nothing better has been devised. — Calvin Coolidge · 1925

Edmund Burke1 quote

Parties must ever exist in a free country. — Edmund Burke · 1775

George Washington1 quote

Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally. — George Washington · 1796

James Madison1 quote

In every political society, parties are unavoidable. A difference of interests, real or supposed is the most natural and fruitful source of them...the great art of politicians lies in making them checks and balances to each other. — James Madison · 1792

John Stuart Mill1 quote

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. — John Stuart Mill · 1859

Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote

There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1882

Robert M. La Follette1 quote

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless... If there is not sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another, possibly more effective pretext after war is on. — Robert M. La Follette · 1917