Political Parties Quotes and a few Excerpt Quotes

I believe these quotes about political parties describe the Democratic Party. These quotes also describe problems that political parties cause. Furthermore, They give nothing to anyone and take away from everyone. As a result, They are an angry, ruthless, unhinged mob determined to get power by any means necessary.

Political parties quote about usurping power for themselves.

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779

This quote addresses subservience to political parties.

“The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of his/her core identity…. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.”
BRENNAN MANNING, Abba’s Child

Quote telling of political parties fighting each other.

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.
JOHN ADAMS, letter to Jonathan Jackson, October 2, 1789

“The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.”
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The Outlook, July 27, 1912

These quotes tell how political parties sell out the country & people for power and control.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, speech, March 6, 1956

It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations. It is in the interest of each one of them, that the other should be weakened by internal struggle. Hence it is always possible to pose the question of whether the parties exist by virtue of their own strength, as their own necessity, or whether rather they only exist to serve the interests of others.

ANTONIO GRAMSCI, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, Circa 1749

This Quote tells what the Democratic Party is doing now.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. MENCKEN, attributed, Return of the Portable Curmudgeon

A sect or a party is an elegant incognito, devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, journal entry, June 20, 1831

The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.
EDWARD ABBEY, The Serpents of Paradise

Politics do not necessarily mean party politics, though in this country, at this moment, the one runs dangerously near to implying the other.
ALFRED AUSTIN, The Bridling of Pegasus

Quote below says its Time for WE THE PEOPLE TO stop our destruction by political parties

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
John Adams: Thoughts on Government, 1776

 

“It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.”
Thomas Jefferson