GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to James Welch, Apr. 7, 1799
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.
We have to listen to this guy more! He got it right on parties, war, and paying debts (Obama, you listening?).
Man, if we had the founding fathers right now...