George Washington: America’s Founding Father

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  @keithtestaverde3712 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact: Washington was also impossible to kill. The man in his lifetime had tuberculosis, dysentery, pneumonia, malaria, smallpox, and diphtheria which were usually lethal at the time. The discomfort from dysentery made him sit taller on his horse. He trotted 30 yards away from the British at Princeton and had to be pulled away. It was so cold crossing the Delaware that the river was mostly frozen and 2 soldiers who crossed were found frozen on the road next morning. He had 2 horses shot out from under him at Pittsburgh, and discovered after the battle that he had 4 bullet holes in his coat. The man is a legend.

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  @Shintigercurl · 6 years ago

  what i liked about washington was how he seemed so aware of how history would view him and the office of president after his time.

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  @jeremykiahsobyk102 · 6 years ago

  A thing I always admired about Washington was how he referred to his office as a servant's position, and how he referred to all elected officials as the servants of the people. Not leaders, we lead ourselves. Not those in charge, we rule ourselves. Our servants. Most politicians have utterly lost the thread of that narrative.

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  @captainjack8319 · 6 years ago

  Humble, honorable, and self-aware. The father of the United States!

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  @gungriffen · 6 years ago

  A man who is given absolute power but turns it down is worthy of Legend.

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  @andrewsutherland133 · 5 years ago

  When napoleon bonaparte was exiled out of France after his attempts at empire came to an end, he regrettably said, "they wanted me to be another Washington"

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  @PH-ng8tr · 6 years ago

  I’m not American but this man is awesome

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  @deek1670 · 6 years ago

  Despite his faults I still feel that Washington is morally superior to most people who would be in his time. He willingly gave up his power when many people wanted to make him king, and he even figured out a workaround so that his slaves could be freed after his death. The most annoying thing I find is that people look on the morality of past people through modern glasses, thinking if they lived back then that they would be morally superior to other people, not realizing that their morality is a product of hundreds of years of philosophical development on what it means to be moral.

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  @TrollingPalico · 6 years ago

  Washington the man is far more interesting than Washington the legend. His flaws make his accomplishments all the more impressive to me.

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  @troymacdonald4462 · 6 years ago

  George Washington was a master at not being perfect, but he carried the entire early states on his shoulders...

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  @ronsorage78 · 6 years ago

  As with every founding father. Great Men arent always good men. Holding them to today's standards is also unrealistic.  They did great things that give us what we have even today.

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  @redacted5052 · 6 years ago

  We celebrate him for giving up power not taking power.

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