"While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in Union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations... Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other." | by: | George Washington
(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country' |
Source: | Farewell Address, September 17, 1796, Ref: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (521) |
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