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> >George Washington's Farewell Address
> >To the People of the United States
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> >FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS:
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> >The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer
> >the executive government of the United States, being not far
> >distant,
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> [snip]
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> Then there are those of us, history aficionados (thus
> anti-leftist-weenie), who already knew this; but continue to amuse
> ourselves by hearing it spoken by "G. Washington" on the HBO series
> "John Adams" ;-)
About parties:
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.