📜 George Washington's Warning: A Message for Today 📜 "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people." – George Washington As our first President, George Washington foresaw the danger of political parties becoming tools for manipulation and division rather than serving the common good.