George H.W. Bush: “Authorization of appropriations in excess of President's request for the Trade and Development Program and the Overseas…”

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most…

We are here today, together, to strengthen and reform U.N. peacekeeping because our common security demands it.

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.