Don’t Party
Friday, 15 February 2008 Jacob TomawAs we enter into one of the great mattress discount holidays, let us not forget that this is actually a celebration of Washington’s Birthday.
One of the warnings the only President to not have party affiliation gave us in his farewell address was about the perils of factions.
Liberty … is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction … and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyments of the rights of person and property.
(Note: There is no such Federal holiday called President’s Day. But there was legislation called Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which I posit made us all forget why we are having 3-day weekends.)