A great presidential address - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Truman's Farewell Address, Kennedy's Inaugural Address - has the power to inspire. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
“Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
“Our citizens must act as Americans; not as Americans with a prefix and qualifications; not as Irish-Americans, German-Americans, native Americans—but as Americans… — Mary Beth Smith Copy Share Image
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington Copy Share Image
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one… — George Washington Copy Share Image
