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US House candidate, MI-3

I defend #liberty and explain every vote at http://facebook.com/justinamash  • 'Laws must be general, equal, and certain.' —F.A. Hayek

Third District of Michigan
Joined January 2011

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    1. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. “This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.…pic.twitter.com/cvamz5wTXu

      22 replies 182 retweets 427 likes
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    2. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.…

      1 reply 15 retweets 52 likes
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    3. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “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.…

      1 reply 19 retweets 60 likes
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    4. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent 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;…

      1 reply 16 retweets 50 likes
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    5. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      ”…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.…

      1 reply 15 retweets 55 likes
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    6. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), 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.…

      1 reply 16 retweets 48 likes
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    7. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “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, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.…

      1 reply 15 retweets 54 likes
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    8. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.…

      3 replies 19 retweets 58 likes
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    9. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true;…

      4 replies 14 retweets 50 likes
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    10. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “…and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.…

      3 replies 17 retweets 51 likes
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      Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
      US House candidate, MI-3

      “From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it.…

      7:00 AM - 19 Feb 2018
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        1. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Feb 19
          US House candidate, MI-3

          “A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.” —George Washington

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