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" Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle... "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 41
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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Betts-Roosevelt Letters: A Spirited and Illuminating Discussion on a Pure ...

Charles Henry Betts, Theodore Roosevelt - Employers' liability - 1912 - 110 pages
...can be admin- i istered, is through the agency of a political party. Burke tells us that "A political party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principles; in which they are all agreed." / And...
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Human Nature in Politics

Graham Wallas - Political ethics - 1916 - 328 pages
...particular party may be due to a deliberate intellectual process. It may be formed, as Burke said, by ' a body of men united for promoting by their joint...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.'1 But when a party has once come into existence its fortunes depend upon facts of human nature...
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STATE GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pages
...is impossible," he declared, "for civil liberty to exist without parties." He held with Burke that a party is a "body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavor the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." He believed...
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The Citizen and the Republic: A Text-book in Government

James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - United States - 1918 - 506 pages
...these parties are organized and how they do their work. - Administration POLITICAL PARTIES DEFINED "A party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some principle on which they are all agreed." This is Burke's...
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The Works of Lord Morley, Volume 13

John Morley - 1921 - 266 pages
...to be blown off their ground by the breath of every childish talker. They were not afraid that they should be called an ambitious junto ; or that their...placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places." Godolphin now for the first time formed his government on a basis exclusively Whig. It was on this...
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The Works of Lord Morley, Volume 13

John Morley - 1921 - 252 pages
...to be blown off their ground by the breath of every childish talker. They were not afraid that they should be called an ambitious junto ; or that their...placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places." Godolphin now for the first time formed his government on a basis exclusively Whig. It was on this...
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The Indian Review, Volume 23

G.A. Natesan - India - 1922 - 982 pages
...be delegated in trust. In words memorable for all time, Burke has given the definition of party as " a body of men united for promoting by their joint...upon some particular principle in which they are all united." This indeed is a high ideal, and at once distinguishes party from faction. The fact that personal...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 396 pages
...to be blown off their ground by the breath of every childish talker. They were not afraid that they should be called an ambitious junto; or that their...a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my...
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American Politics: Political Parties and Party Problems in the United States ...

James Albert Woodburn - Political parties - 1924 - 578 pages
...time as flexible an idea of the general basic principle of the true party as we can anywhere find : "A party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some principle on which they are all agreed." ci o& MS T;r DE...
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Fathers of the Revolution

Philip Guedalla - United States - 1926 - 352 pages
...and puerile malignity to imagine that every statesman is of course corrupt," to the level wisdom of "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint 140 endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed,"...
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