George Washington used the light of this brass candle stand while laboring over his farewell address in 1796. Richard Strauss / NMAH George Washington was a man of many talents. Writing speeches ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final ...

Senator Shaheen (D-NH) read George Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address. The reading is done annually in the Senate. Senator Shaheen (D-NH) read George Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address.

On September 19, 1796, George Washington published his Farewell Address. In it, America’s “founding father” announced his retirement and explained his reasons for not seeking a third term as ...

In his farewell address, George Washington, the first president of our United States, offered words of unity, peace, safety and prosperity for our country — words we should reflect upon as ...

The dawn of American democracy didn’t take place in 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It didn’t come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified, or in 1789, when ...

Alexis Coe wants you to read George Washington’s Farewell Address. She calls it a “shockingly modern document” for something that was written in a late-18th century agricultural society.

As President George Washington prepared to leave office after his first term was winding down, he asked his friend James Madison, himself a future president, to help him write a farewell address ...

He shared a screenshot of George Washington’s famed farewell address, which warned, “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and ...

Among these documents are the Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, the Bill of Rights and George Washington’s farewell address to the people of the United States. This last ...

his lawyers have turned to George Washington. Citing Washington’s “Farewell Address to the People of the United States,” a foundational, historical message Washington wrote for all Americans ...

Most presidents leave office with a speech to the nation ... But it was his reference to George Washington, America’s first president, that felt most deliberate. “George Washington showed ...