Washington's Farewell Address
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Editor, Times-Union:
1. They “serve always to distract the public councils and enfeeble public administration.”
2. They “agitate the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms.”
3. They “kindle animosity of one part against another; forment occasional riot and insurrection.”
4. They “open the door to foreign influence and corruption, thus the policy and will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
Taken from George Washington’s farewell address – quite a prophet wasn’t he?
D.R. Miller
Warsaw, via e-mail
