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
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
[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
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 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
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 necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on… — 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
..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
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
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
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