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To: KC_Lion
Freedom isn’t free, be willing to fight for it.

8 posted on 02/18/2013 9:25:33 AM PST by Bratch
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To: Bratch; onyx; cripplecreek
An interesting Parrnell in French and American History.

George Washington is the only man in history who could have been King of this nation, or at the very least serve for the rest of his life and no one would have objected.

Instead Washington choose to say "No". He had the Character to walk away from unlimited Power.

While in the French Republic you had another strong willed and strong Character man come to lead it.

But Napoleon said "YES!"

He literately crowned himself Emperor and would lead France to the height of power in history.

But at the end of their lives, Washington created a Country that lasted and Napoleon was ultimately a failure, despite being a Superior military commander.


10 posted on 02/18/2013 9:37:06 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Bratch

Patriots


11 posted on 02/18/2013 9:41:09 AM PST by Big Red Badger
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