All It Takes Is One Determined Individual For Liberty To Triumph
The teacher asks her high school American history class:
"Can anyone tell me who started the American Revolution?"
Several hands immediately shot up, the teacher picks the hand belonging to her best student, a thin intellectual looking boy wearing thick glasses who says, "King George III. He was a stupid blockhead who allowed his Ministers too much power and they oppressed the colonists with high taxes causing them to revolt."
"Wrong," said the teacher and picked the hand of her next best student, an attractive red headed girl with lovely blue eyes and an intelligent face who stated with authority, "George Washington started the American Revolution. He wanted to be a British general but was turned down because he was a colonist, and not a true Briton. So in response to this put down, Washington made himself first a general and then later first president of the United States."
"Wrong," said the teacher who then picked the hand of an intelligent, yet lazy student who never received more than a "B" from her. The boy said, "Sam Adams. The guy they named the beer after that my dad loves so well. Sam Adams was the Father of the American Revolution because British injustice ruined his father and forced him to wait on tables in order to get a college education. He never forgave or forgot this insult to his beloved father and himself. He was the driving force behind, 'The Sons Of Liberty' who spread revolutionary thought and action all over the colonies. George Washington was a moderate who believed in compromise with the British until 1774 -- the eve of the Revolution."
"Right," said the teacher, "Sam Adams was the prime mover of the American Revolution. An ocean of ink has been spilled to account for the reasons why our Revolution happened, but without the actions of a very determined individual some sort of compromise with the British would have been done.
"Can anyone tell me who started the American Revolution?"
Several hands immediately shot up, the teacher picks the hand belonging to her best student, a thin intellectual looking boy wearing thick glasses who says, "King George III. He was a stupid blockhead who allowed his Ministers too much power and they oppressed the colonists with high taxes causing them to revolt."
"Wrong," said the teacher and picked the hand of her next best student, an attractive red headed girl with lovely blue eyes and an intelligent face who stated with authority, "George Washington started the American Revolution. He wanted to be a British general but was turned down because he was a colonist, and not a true Briton. So in response to this put down, Washington made himself first a general and then later first president of the United States."
"Wrong," said the teacher who then picked the hand of an intelligent, yet lazy student who never received more than a "B" from her. The boy said, "Sam Adams. The guy they named the beer after that my dad loves so well. Sam Adams was the Father of the American Revolution because British injustice ruined his father and forced him to wait on tables in order to get a college education. He never forgave or forgot this insult to his beloved father and himself. He was the driving force behind, 'The Sons Of Liberty' who spread revolutionary thought and action all over the colonies. George Washington was a moderate who believed in compromise with the British until 1774 -- the eve of the Revolution."
"Right," said the teacher, "Sam Adams was the prime mover of the American Revolution. An ocean of ink has been spilled to account for the reasons why our Revolution happened, but without the actions of a very determined individual some sort of compromise with the British would have been done.
"Class," the teacher continued, "You will find that history is made by very determined individuals. There are, of course, mass movements, but these are always the creation of a rugged individualist who can be good or evil. The Prime Mover. The Atlas. So without Sam Adams there would have been no American Revolution; without Lenin there would have been no Russian Revolution; without Muhammad there would be no Islam."
IT WILL TAKE A SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO REMOVE OBAMA
IT WILL TAKE A SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO REMOVE OBAMA
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