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Timeless and currently relevant~ George Washington
Founders online ^ | September 19, 1796 | George Washington

Posted on 10/06/2019 5:33:53 PM PDT by Openurmind

"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield." - Farewell Address, September 19, 1796


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1 posted on 10/06/2019 5:33:53 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts,


How many today love liberty?


2 posted on 10/06/2019 5:39:40 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Openurmind

All monuments and statues to him should immediately be destroyed. He was a slave owner.


3 posted on 10/06/2019 5:51:13 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Openurmind
"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism."

This is the path our current congress is on. They should allow our duly elected President to perform his duties. The constant interference with the President in an attempt to overturn the results of the last Presidential election is nothing less than treason.
4 posted on 10/06/2019 6:20:50 PM PDT by Ragnar54 (Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
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To: Ragnar54

“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”

This too is currently being exercised and treason.


5 posted on 10/06/2019 6:25:21 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: yarddog

“...He was a slave owner.”
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Who set his slaves free upon his death.

PS ...I know you were being sarcastic about destroying his statues.


6 posted on 10/06/2019 6:50:22 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: Openurmind
Translated to today's youth, from Idiocracy:


7 posted on 10/06/2019 7:39:56 PM PDT by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Openurmind

Bump


8 posted on 10/06/2019 8:07:19 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Openurmind

btt


9 posted on 10/06/2019 8:13:52 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Openurmind
But let there be no change by usurpation;

That happened from 2009 until 2016. The Republican Party sold their soul and betrayed the Constitution of the United States of America and teamed up with the Democrat Party, already traitors to the United States to allow barack obama? to occupy the White House for 8 years and fundamentally transform and corrupt the United states of America.

10 posted on 10/06/2019 8:28:17 PM PDT by sport
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And they are still doing it...


11 posted on 10/06/2019 8:38:55 PM PDT by Openurmind
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Another reminder of how lucky we as a nation are to have been founded by such exceptional men.


12 posted on 10/07/2019 3:26:16 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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