Historians Plutarch and Beloch purport that Pericles deliberately let Athens be pulled into a needless Peloponnesian War with Sparta in order to divert criticism away from himself.
John Quincy Adams wrote in an Executive Order, July 11, 1826: "A coincidence ... so wonderful gives confidence ... that the patriotic efforts of these ... men were Heaven directed, and furnishes a new ... hope that the prosperity of these States is under the special protection of a kind Providence."
Ronald Reagan stated 1961: "In this country of ours took place THE GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY -- Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another ... Here for THE FIRST TIME in all the THOUSANDS OF YEARS of man's relation to man ... the founding fathers established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT AND ABILITY to DETERMINE OUR OWN DESTINY."
Robert Cottrol, professor of law at George Washington University, stated:“Some of the earliest gun control legislation was in fact being aimed directly at black people ... After the Civil War the southern states ...Black Codes prohibited the newly freed black population from having weapons."
Like the Biden Administration abandoned Afghanistan, Woodrow Wilson's Administration abandoned Armenians. Rooseveltwrote"Armenians, have been subjected to wrongs far greater than any that have been committed since the close of the Napoleonic Wars ... the wars of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane in Asia. Yet this government has not raised its hand to do anything to help the people who were wronged ... This course of national infamy ... began when the last Administration surrendered to the peace at-any-price people."
