Let me now … warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. … The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. … In governments purely elective, it [the spirit of party] is a spirit not to be encouraged.
