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Rare virtue, but I wouldn’t say it was unprecedented: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinct
by chrchang523 3y ago
Rare virtue, but I wouldn’t say it was unprecedented: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus
- WalterBright 3y agoI didn't know about him, thanks. But it illustrates my point - you had to reach back two thousand five hundred years to find an example.
- 8note 3y agoTheres not a big sample size to pick from. How many people have led armies fighting British, let alone beat them?
- WalterBright 3y agoThe sample size is people who led successful revolutions. There are plenty in history you can compare Washington to.
- sifar 3y agoFor the record, there is also Scipio. But yes, very few people in all of history who voluntarily stepped back when offered absolute power.
- andrepd 3y agoFrance-Albert René, Jerry Rawlings. Couple of 20th century examples of autocrats who yielded their power to democratic rule.
- WalterBright 3y ago> France-Albert René I'm not impressed. He took a dictatorship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France-Albert_Ren%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France-Albert_Ren%C3%A9 > Jerry Rawlings Not impressed with him,either. He took it back: "After handing power over to a civilian government, he took back control of the country on 31 December 1981 as the chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rawlings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rawlings