http://www.thirty-thousand.org/pages/Baneful_Parties.htm
This is the reason for my screen name.
“Does George Washington’s warning about political parties resonate with Americans in 2008?”
Well, it resonates with SOME of us; and we even “take a beating” sometimes at FreeRepublic from those who think that Conservative = Republican.
However, I don’t think it resonates with the American public as a whole. After all “the two party system” is all most of us have ever known.
Below is from George Washington’s Farewell Address!
Warns against the party system.
“It serves to distract the Public Councils,
and enfeeble the Public Administration....
agitates the Community with ill-founded
jealousies and false alarms; kindles the
animosity of one.... against another....
it opens the door to foreign influence and
corruption... thus the policy and the will
of one country are subjected to the policy
and will of another.”
Stresses the importance of religion and morality.
“Where is the security for property, for reputation,
for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert
the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation
in Courts of Justice?”
On stable public credit.
“...cherish public credit.
One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly
as possible... avoiding likewise the accumulation of
debt.... it is essential that you...bear in mind,
that towards the payments of debts there must be
Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes;
that no taxes can be devised, which are not...
inconvenient and unpleasant...”
Warns against permanent foreign alliances.
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent
alliances with any portion of the foreign world...”
One of my favorite quotes:
“If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger.”
George Washington, at Valley Forge.
If anything we have a stealth monarchy with many implanted fractions of the elected cooperating and leading us into the direction of communism.
This is why they hated Bush and that is why I call him a Maverick. If it wasn't for Fox News and the Internet...their goals would have already been accomplished.
Amen, GW!