Washington Farewell Address Quotes & Sayings

Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it is because of all the religious warnings Washington made in his 'Farewell Address.' — David Barton

Today, the lines between mentoring and networking are blurring. Welcome to the world of mentworking. — Julie Winkle Giulioni

It was dismal sitting there on rickety boxes in the pitchy darkness, but we smoked pipes and occasionally flashed our pocket lamps about. — H.P. Lovecraft

Under stress, women tended to cry it away. Men tended to get angry and lash out. — Craig Alanson

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. — Amartya Sen

In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions. — Marianne Williamson

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address. — Marianne Williamson

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life. — Leo Fitzpatrick

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer. — Jane Austen

It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings. — David Barton

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met. — Zachary Cole Smith

We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well. — William O. Douglas

An alliance with France was enlisted in the war for independence from Britain, then loosened in the aftermath, as France undertook revolution and embarked on a European crusade in which the United States had no direct interest. When President Washington, in his 1796 Farewell Address - delivered in the midst of the French revolutionary wars - counseled that the United States "steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world" and instead "safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies," he was issuing not so much a moral pronouncement as a canny judgment about how to exploit America's comparative advantage: the United States, a fledgling power safe behind oceans, did not have the need or the resources to embroil itself in continental controversies over the balance of power. — Henry Kissinger

Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light. — Joseph J. Ellis

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that. — Ethan Hawke

The word 'soviet' means 'council' in Russian (there was nothing particularly Communist about it until after 1917). — Orlando Figes

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
— Henri Matisse

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783) — George Washington

I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller. — Jose Andres