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...”
“A Republic if you can keep it.” Ben Franklin
Our Founding Fathers would weep.