"We have considered ourselves of too much importance in the scale of nations. It has led us into great errors. Instead of yielding to circumstances which human power cannot control, we have imagined that our own destiny and that of other nations was in our hands, to be regulated as we thought proper."
Virgina Federalist Daniel Sheffey on the eve of the war of 1812; from The War of 1812 A Forgotten Conflict by Donald Hickey p300 (In the War of 1812, the White House is burned and the USA is fortunate to get a stalemate from the war).
It's been almost 200 years - and we still don't get it - we are the truest definition of a bully.
Virgina Federalist Daniel Sheffey on the eve of the war of 1812; from The War of 1812 A Forgotten Conflict by Donald Hickey p300 (In the War of 1812, the White House is burned and the USA is fortunate to get a stalemate from the war).
It's been almost 200 years - and we still don't get it - we are the truest definition of a bully.
kelland:
I always feel so misinformed about that particular war. 