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George Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"George Washington (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799) was the successful Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, and later became the first President of the United States, an office to which he was twice elected unanimously, and held from 1789 to 1797. ..." |
| Born |
| 22 Feb 1732, in Popes Creek Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia |
| Died |
| 14 Dec 1799, in Mount Vernon, Virginia |
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| Biography |
Biography of George Washington, by Mark Mastromarino, 1999
Written for Bicentennial of Washington's death |
Chronology - George Washington: A National Treasure
Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery |
George Washington Biography Lesson
Educational resource from the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association |
| Web Sites |
George Washington: A National Treasure
Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery traveling exhibition of Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington. Site includes detailed Washington chronology. |
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress: 1741-1799
American Memory Collections |
George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association |
The Papers of George Washington
A project of the University of Virginia |
| Articles |
Book Review: A Sacred Union of Citizens—George Washington's Farewell Address and the American Character by M. Spalding & P. Garrity, by George C. Leef, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Nov 1997
"... Washington extolled the virtues of just minding one's own business. If the character of most if not all of the people were to be formed around that simple maxim, people would turn away from the seduction of politics. ... warned ... against allowing even the slightest weakening of the Constitution's restraints upon governmental power ..." |
Book Review: Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser, by Clarence B. Carson, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Sep 1996
"This is ... a series of essays on the general subject of George Washington. It focuses upon Washington's career, his character, and his place in the minds and hearts of Americans. ... he was given to asking those about him for their opinions and understanding, such as the need to restrain government lest it trample individual rights." |
Citizen Washington, by Ryan McMaken, 23 Feb 2001
"Washington is important not as a president, but simply as a man. He was a man who risked his vast fortune and his life to fight for what many saw as a lost cause. ... To be a great man, being president is neither necessary nor sufficient; and when we begin to confuse great men and great presidents we do ourselves a disservice." |
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Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States, by Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1995
Related Topics: Bureaucracy, John Adams, Founding Fathers, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Richard M. Nixon, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Political Parties, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting
"Carl Prince has shown, however, that, guided by his distinguished theoretician and organizer Alexander Hamilton, Washington deliberately developed a highly partisan, Federalist party-oriented federal civil service. In the first place, all Anti-Federalists were from the beginning deliberately excluded from office." |
Happy Counterterrorism Day, by Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine, 5 Nov 2007
Related Topics: Protection Against Cruel and Unusual Punishments
Recounts the history of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot and proposes three lessons to be learned from it for the present age
"The original George W. saw things quite differently. For him, America was involved in a struggle for its liberty, and the commemoration of Guy Fawkes stood for the opposite: government by fear, oppression of a minority, a celebration of arbitrary power. Guy Fawkes Day was the abnegation of the essential values of the Revolution. So the original George W. put it in an order: No more Guy Fawkes Day." |
No More Great Presidents, by Robert Higgs, Mises.org Daily Article, 19 Feb 2007
Related Topics: United States Presidents, Grover Cleveland, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, War
"Washington, I think, actually does deserve a high rating ... He established the precedent of stepping down after two terms, which lasted until it clashed with FDR's insatiable ambition, and he prescribed the sensible foreign policy, later slandered as 'isolationism,' that served the nation well for more than a century." |
The American Heritage of "Isolationism", by Gregory Bresiger, Freedom Daily, May 2006
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
"Washington's proclamation, which split his cabinet, was controversial because the United States still had an alliance with France that was entered into during the American Revolution. ... Nevertheless, Washington's goal was to put relations with both empires on an equal footing." |
| Writings |
George Washington's Farewell Address, 19 Sep 1796
Related Topic: Foreign Entanglements
The Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia
"Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign World ... I repeat it therefore, Let those engagements. be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them." |
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