Awake Quote by George Washington

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

— George Washington

“George Washington was unambiguous in his distrust of manipulation by political parties, writing that it: “agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms,…

— Joseph Befumo

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

— Alexander Hamilton

“this Republicrat Junta has created the most corrupt, unanswerable, greedy system in the history of civilization, and, they are working night and day to…

— Joseph Befumo

“The common and continual mischief's [sic] of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise…

— George Washington

“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…

— Thomas Jefferson

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor…

— Joseph P. Bradley

“All the domestic controversies of the Americans at first appear to a stranger to be so incomprehensible and so puerile that he is at…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away…

— Edmund Burke

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict…

— Ludwig von Mises