Comments by "Andre Falksmen" (@andrefalksmen1264) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. Adolphus the adequate?
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  2. Or Siegfrid the so-so
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  3. The evils exposed in the cahiers were not accidents of the age, but the bequest of malignant forces at work for centuries. Irresponsible power, the caprice of war, slavery, intolerance, arbitrary arrest, the deadly prison, the inhuman aggravation of the pains of death, had been the steady produce of elaborate design. The men who struck at the misery inflicted by traditional authority believed no dogma so firmly as that of the folly of their ancestors. The supreme object of their striving was to depose and to degrade a tyrant who, at his best, was blind and ignorant and cruel, and who, moreover, was dead. Their sternest resolve was that generations of astrologers, sorcerers, and torturers, of legislators unable to read, of sovereigns only able to kill, that the wisdom of the code noir and the statute book of George II. should not be suffered to reign over Watt and Hunter, over Lavoisier and Laplace, Smith and Kant; and the most vigorous of the revolutionary ​thinkers, Sieyès studied both to banish the past and to prevent the present from again overshadowing the future. It was under this flag that the armies conquered Germany, destroying and transforming, and left no institution standing but the monarchy of Frederic the Great. - Lord Acton
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  4. To be fair, he was a staunch abolitionist and supporter of civil rights for African-Americans, although it stopped with African-Americans, he greatly disliked Asians, Mexicans, and natives. That was not actually unusual for the time, even Justice John Harlan, the lone dissenter and Plessy V Ferguson, added to the end of his dissenting opinion, that his views did not apply to Asians.
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