Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-1] of 1 Disorder quotesDisorder QuotesDisorder The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism … The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.~ George Washington Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print