During his long farewell address, George Washington warned against a few things: * Civil wars: "our country... ...must derive from Union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves..." * Too large a military: "avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty." * Patriotism that divides: "With such powerful and obvious motives to Union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those, who in any quarter may endeavour to weaken its bands. " * Placing party loyalties above the nation: "Let me n