| “ | The Country is so totally given up to the Spirit of Party, that not to follow blind-fold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense – The worst of these parties has the popular torrent in its favor, and uses its triumph with all the unprincipled fury of a faction; while the other gnashes its teeth, and is waiting with all the impatience of revenge, for the time when its turn may come to oppress and punish by the people's favor. | ” |
| — John Quincy Adams, 1803. | ||