 | Ian W Toll - 2006 - 614 halaman
...so pervasive in the 1790s, he arranged to have his political adversaries smeared. He declared that "If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all," but he was the first acknowledged leader of a major American political party. Jefferson was his... | |
 | Vernon L. Grose - 2006 - 748 halaman
...much reflect apathy, as a disgust with the alternatives. Independents may be like Jefferson who said, "If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Not too long ago, many thought it easy to spot either a liberal or a conservative by what they... | |
 | Robin L. Einhorn - 2008 - 351 halaman
...Political Parties in the United States Congress, 17891989 (New York, 1989). 52. The quotation continues: "If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (New York, 2002), 66. The classic... | |
 | Kathryn Page Camp - 2006 - 232 halaman
...rather than a member of either party. In fact, he was so opposed to belonging to any party that he said "if I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Still, he admitted that his thinking was much closer to that of the Federalists than the Antifederalists.6... | |
 | Vernon L. Grose - 2006 - 742 halaman
...apathy, as a disgust with the alternatives. Independents may be like Jefferson who said, "If I could oot go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Not too long ago, many thought it easy to spot either a liberal or a conservative by what they... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 halaman
...the Declaration of Independence. This prompted Jefferson, despite his fabled opposition to parties ("If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all"), to become the leader of the first modern political party in America, one that proved nearly... | |
 | John W. Casperson - 2007 - 258 halaman
...capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.' — Thomas Jefferson. "If they answer not to thy call walk alone, If they are afraid and cower... | |
 | John J. DiIulio - 2007 - 328 halaman
...pick a side, he would stand squarely with Madison, the Constitution, and the multiplicity of sects: "If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go at all. ... I am not of the party of the federalists. But I am much farther from that of the Antifederalists."... | |
 | William Safire - 2008 - 888 halaman
...effects of the spirit of party," Madison shaking his head at "faction," and Jefferson stating flatly, "If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." When FDR in 1939 called for "cooperation ... without trace of partisanship," speechwriter Samuel... | |
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I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and... 
