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.
Transcript of entire farewell address:
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/pages/GW_farewell.htm
Excerpts thereof relating to political parties:
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/pages/Baneful_Parties.htm
He, reportedly, also warned against “foreign entanglements” from his death-bed.
But his political philosophy is SOOOOOOO late 18th century.
We’re so much more enlightened now...