February 22 was “Washington’s Birthday”. It was declared a federal holiday by congress in 1880 in memory of the great revolutionary general and the first president of the United States of America. The professional politicians in congress decided that the memory of Washington, and his love of our constitution, may interfere with their plans to subvert the constitution and remain in absolute power. So they changed the holiday’s name to “President’s Day” in honor of ALL presidents.
There is a political movement to re-write our history books, leaving out the biographies of Washington and Lincoln. In a few generations, their memory and what they stood for will be erased.
Below are excerpts of Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796, in which he is warning future generations of the dangers of contentious political parties and the importance of religion and morality in government. We have ignored Washington’s warnings and now find ourselves facing dictatorship by a congress and president out of control.
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Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796,
“The formation of political parties may 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 afterward the very engines which have lifted them to their unjust power.
The alternate domination of one faction (party) over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation in the ruins of public liberty.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”
President George Washington 1796