In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final address contains enough wisdom to fill volumes—until, on a whim, I ...

President George Washington delivered his farewell address 225 years ago. Mount Vernon convened a virtual panel to revis… John Avlon talked about his book, Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President George Washington warned in his farewell address about partisanship, sectionalism, excessive public debt, ambitious ...

WASHINGTON -- Days after what would have been George Washington's 294th birthday, U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., led an effort on Wednesday to restore a tradition of reading the first American ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address is one of the key documents of America’s founding era. It’s not as familiar as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and some other writings, but it ...

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As we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, the words of George Washington in his Farewell Address of 1796 read less like ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address is one of the key documents of America’s founding era. It’s not as familiar as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and some other writings, but it ...

The United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the country’s founding document, in 2026. Twenty years later, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address is one of the key documents of America’s founding era. It’s not as familiar as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and some other writings, but it ...