The Real War on Terror

“The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create–whatever the form of government–a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.”

– George Washington (Farewell Address, 19 September 1796)

(Alexander Hamilton wrote Washington’s Farewell Address)