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Originally posted by xterra312002:
as George Washington said "Political parties in their best form are but a necessary evil."
I don't believe Washington ever said that. Where did you hear that?

But he DID say this:

"The common and continual mischief of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."

And:

"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government."
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"Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced" - Thomas Jefferson, moral relativist