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John Adams Quote – The Middle Way Is None At All

By Tina Didreckson On March 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In John Adams

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Samuel Adams Quote, All Men Are Fond of Power

By Tina Didreckson On March 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Samuel Adams

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Federalist Number Six, Discord and hostility between the States

By Steve Straub On July 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers

“So far is the general sense of mankind from corresponding with the tenets of those who endeavor to lull asleep our apprehensions of discord and hostility between the States, in the event of disunion, that it has from long observation of the progress of society become a sort of axiom in politics, that vicinity or [...]

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Federalist Number One, A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose

By Steve Straub On July 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers

“ To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and [...]

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Federalist Number One, In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword.

By Steve Straub On July 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers

“Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question. Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at [...]

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Thomas Jefferson Poster – A difference in opinion on politics is no reason for withdrawing from a friend

By Steve Straub On July 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Posters, Thomas Jefferson

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Abigail Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 18, 1804

By Steve Straub On July 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Abigail Adams

 In no country have calumny, falsehood and reviling stalked abroad more licentiously than in this.

No political character has been secure from its attacks ; no reputation so fair as not to be Wounded by it, until truth and falsehood lie in one undistinguished heap.

Party spirit is blind, malevolent, uncandid, ungenerous, unjust and unf…orgiving. [...]

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John Adams, Letter to Horatio Gates (23 March 1776)

By Steve Straub On March 8, 2011 · 25 Comments · In John Adams

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

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