Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? — George Washington Copy Share Image
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . . — 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
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
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
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous… — 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
..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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
“Truman’s farewell address on January 15, 1953, delivered five days before he left the renovated White House, is to this day one… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. — George Washington Copy Share Image
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? — George Washington Copy Share Image
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. — George Washington 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
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
“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
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
Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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