[KC_Lion]

George Washington

Mr. President

What George Washington Stood For

http://youtu.be/SlHcIyyUP5A?t=2m39s

Napoleon I Emperor of the French

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oLflPilcMc

[SeeSharp]

Whereas Americans struggled for tangible goals, the French took on the Sisyphean task of striving for abstractions.

True of the Americans until Lincoln. Now we too serve abstractions.

[BenLurkin]

Recommended reading on the subject:

[Verginius Rufus]

Jefferson and his political allies in the 1790s were much more sympathetic to the French Revolution than the Federalists were. When it looked like Jefferson would win the Presidential election in 1800, some of the Federalists were terrified, fearing he would try to impose Jacobinism and atheism on the US. That’s why the deadlock occurred in the House of Representatives in Feb. 1801, because Jefferson and Burr had equal electoral votes. Even though Jefferson had been the intended Presidential candidate, many Federalists preferred Burr to avoid Jefferson.

[Jim Noble]

Liberty and equality are antonyms.

[all the best]

The French revolution had more in common with the Russian revolution than the American.