Seven great men in history (and why you should hate them)

[Dangerous]

I like these men.

 

[Leto Atrides]

He forgot Richard the Lionhearted, who spent more time abroad fighting in crusades than, you know, *governing the country*. Also, he probably didn't even speak any English, despite being the King of England.

Yeah, I was actually wondering if that was going to be one of them. However, monarchs were often not native to the country they were in charge of in the middle ages on, so the fact he couldn't speak English isn't that bad. The fact he hated England and bascially just used it as a bank account is.

Most of these are pretty dumb. How can you not know most famous people are *****ebags? Edison, Hoover, most presidents. I remember reading some historian saying Franklin Pierce was probably the only genuinely good, kind man to ever be president and he's counted among the worst 3 presidents ever. I didn't know about Patrick Henry though, that's crazy.

On the whole "hyphenated American" thing, Teddy Roosevelt used to go on about that all the time, too. They were mad that people recognized themselves as "German-American", "Italian-American", "Irish-American", etc. instead of just as Americans. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Wilson was racist, but that's not he was talking about with that. Seriously, it's very hard to find people from the early 20th century and back who aren't racist. Even most abolitionists didn't treat and think of all races in the same way.