George Washington’s Farewell Address In Today’s Speech
XKCD is a great little web comic that I discovered today has a nice little blog attached to it. In January they posted up a great little translation of George Washington’s Farewell Address that I think does a pretty good job of translating it into today’s simpler form of speech. I actually just reread the original yesterday and it isn’t an easy read, but I have to say that Washington does a pretty good job of laying out some very good basic principles for the country to try to live up to. Still a long speech, even in the simpler form, but it is well worth a read.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:58 am
That’s a good translation. Usually I think of his farewell to the army speech and bypass this one. We need to go check out the new museum. Breezed through it the last time I was there.