...Press, 1998. In his Farewell Address in 1796, the first American president, George Washington, declared, "It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted...

...Press, 1998. In his Farewell Address in 1796, the first American president, George Washington, declared, "It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted...

...widely and read deeply. In his farewell address to the nation in 1796, President George Washington said, "Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all." 47 Back in the late 1700s and early 1800s, when international travel was arduous, risky, and long,...

...a realist concern about American interests and security with a more liberal call for his nation to "[o]bserve good faith and justice towards all Nations....it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?" He cited the utilitarian maxim that "honesty is always the best policy," but he exhorted America to...

...labeled "War" on the other. Below, a quote from George Washington spells out the nation's responsibility: "It will be •worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a 'People always guided by an exalted...