Your search for "personal attacks" returned 6 results from 4 Founders.
Benjamin Franklin:"Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass."source: Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736.personal attacks, retaliation, anger management, brotherly kindless
Sarah Updike Goddard:"[E]very one who takes delight in publicly or privately taking away any person's good name, or striving to render him ridiculous, are in the fall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity, whatever their presences may be for it."source: Letter to her son, William Goddard, 1765.personal respect, personal attacks, communication, conflict resolution
James Monroe:"Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them."source: To George Hay, April 29, 1808.personal attacks, retaliation, anger management, brotherly kindless
James Madison:"Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."source: Essay 10, The Federalist PapersDemocracy, Democracies, Bad Government, History of Democracy
James Madison:"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; an have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would at the same time be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions."source: Federalist Papers, No. 10government restraint, equality, disposition of people in power
James Madison:"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."source: Federalist Papers, No. 10, p. 81.democracy, democratic government, failure of government

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