& tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was certainly disconnected from the common folk. What did he care if some of their blood was spilt for the sake of another revolution?2
---I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of
bringing about in any way the social and political
equality of the white and black races---and I as much
as any other man am in favor of having the superior
position assigned to the white race."
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was a racist, disconnected from slaves.3 His Civil War, the most deadly for Americans of any U.S. military intervention, was launched not to free the slaves but to maintain the ability to expand the nation's territory and with it greater markets and resources.
I can hire one-half of the working class
to kill the other half.
Jay Gould
Jay Gould was a ruthless railroad tycoon and one of 24 robber barons during America's gilded age in the late 1800's.4
...I should welcome almost any war,
for I think this country needs one.
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