Imagine that the Founding Fathers could travel from the past into our world and see just how America, the nation they created, had evolved. They would see an America that they would never have envisioned and they would decry what it has now become.
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison and their fellow founders were courageous patriots who put country above all else. They saw America as a nation with the potential for greatness but they also had grave concerns over the dangers that lie ahead as the young nation grew and spread its wings.
The Founders would be very distressed as they viewed the America of today, a nation now beset by a myriad of very serious problems, most of them of its own making.
Endless War, A Military Empire
The Founding Fathers warned against standing armies and the dangers of imperialism. Here are several quotes that illustrate their great concerns relative to this issue:
Jefferson: “If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.”