Number One
17 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. 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.
18 However combinations or associations of the above description 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. Washington's Farewell Address
Number Nothing
It was a nice run, but by this time the office of president has pretty much been denigrated and abused from within to the point where I'm not sure I want anyone for president again. Ever.
Posted by: Casey Klahn at October 22, 2014 10:36 AMWell Casey might not be sure but I am. What good is a figure head anyway? Besides, that parchment under glass has nothing to do with me. ASSumptions be damned.
Posted by: ghostsniper at October 22, 2014 12:40 PMPreezy Choom and the Gang. Monuments in dust.
Posted by: Jewel at October 22, 2014 3:21 PMOK.
Despite the elementary school adulation, Washington was a collectivist asshole.
Posted by: itor at October 22, 2014 9:00 PMNot sure where the idea of Washington being a 'collectivist asshole' comes from but that person is gravely mistaken and knows nothing about Washington. But it is OK. Ignorance is required for the completion of Orwellian control.
Posted by: M&P2012 at October 26, 2014 7:26 AM
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