 | Alexander Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 630 pages
...Government and serve to ^probably keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain bounds isAtrue, and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence on the spirit of Party. But in governments of the popular character, in those purely elective, it is... | |
 | Ralph Ketcham - History - 1987 - 294 pages
...spirit, he admitted, was "inseparable from our nature" and might, especially in monarchies, furnish "useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty, . . . [but] in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural... | |
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There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. 
