Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet there ...were surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects... gave him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre, and miles of new boulevards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time ...to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are th...erefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »