Quotes about Division

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity.

As soon as there was two there was pride

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

The bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS. If

The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.