 | James Albert Woodburn - Political parties - 1906 - 352 pages
...definite and at the same time as flexible an idea 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." With this conception of party, true independence can be made... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 592 pages
...associate, else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interests upon some particular principles in which they are all agreed." "Men thinking freely will,... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 624 pages
...quoted in defence of the system. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." The oracle does not tell us how a principle of sufficient importance to unite half the nation and warrant... | |
 | William Trufant Foster - Debates and debating - 1908 - 512 pages
...the unions. B. Edmund Burke, in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, defines "party" as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." C. To enter politics as an independent party is taken to mean to establish itself as such a distinct... | |
 | Arthur Fisher Bentley - Political psychology - 1908 - 550 pages
...themselves through them. One can hardly discuss parties without introducing Burke's definition that a party is "a body of men united for promoting by their joint...the national interest upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed." Here is a definition in terms of the "national interest" and of a "particular... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Great Britain - 1908 - 600 pages
...day to Burke's definition of party as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." For each of the leading parties includes men who are not wholly at one in their principles. Party aims... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - New England - 1909 - 302 pages
...acquire land for a park? XXXIX. PARTY GOVERNMENT: ORGANIZATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES "A political party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed. Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1909 - 490 pages
...party could now be fairly described as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed"? He might hear much about party principles, to be sure; platitudes flow as smoothly from platform speakers... | |
 | 1910 - 1024 pages
...What is a political party, anyway? Burke has given the best definition of its primary purpose: "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." Burke here makes no reference to the promotion of men as one of the purposes of a parly. 1 Ie evidently... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1910 - 1114 pages
...administered, 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 then he says: " It is the business of the speculative... | |
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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by \ their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. 
