Tuesday, September 2, 2014

GW: Party, Politics and War

George Washington, father of our country, had a few good ideas

1) 99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

2) Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

3) Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

4) Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

5) My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

6) The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

7) A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military,supplies.

8) In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If
this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

9) Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

10) Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

11) If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

12) However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

13) Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.

14) Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

15) The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually
incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

16) The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

17) The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. 

18) The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. 

19) The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. 

20) The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.

21) No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts
the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. 

22) Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation
seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.

23) All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. 

24) They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

25) There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

26) No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin.

27) 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 people to discourage and restrain it. 

28) Party serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion.

29) One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

30) No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious,or an economy of time more valuable.

31) The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. 

32) Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty -- that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
 
33) The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.

34) LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

35) Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.


36) Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.


37) Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

38) I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees!

39) I can truly say I had rather be at Mount Vernon than to be attended at the Seat of Government by the Officers of State and the Representatives of every Power in Europe.

40) Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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