Political Party Sympathies

Famous quotes containing the words political, party and/or sympathies:

    “Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,—a total perversion of opinion; society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.”
    —Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)

    “It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a people, both abroad and at home, that they should be considered, as much as possible, in the light of human beings, and not as mere property.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)