Prince Quotes
When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.
Prince. Interview by Tavis Smiley. The Tavis Smiley Show, PBS, 27 Apr. 2009.
Welliver was the first of the American presidential speechwriters. President Harding was the one who used the term in public.
Lin Zexu was actually trying to do something to stop the opium trade. See {621321} . But the English merchants did not want to cease their lucrative trade and used the Navy to humiliate the Chinese.
Adams liked hardly anyone. Washington, his fellow Federalist was President when Adams was Vice President. He had little use for fellow Federalist leader Alexander Hamilton. See {621582} . Washington was by no means illiterate. He was an excellent writer, and was a trained surveyor who also had strong mathematical skills. The founding fathers were an amazingly well educated group of men, and Washington was about average in that rarefied atmosphere. Jefferson and Hamilton who arguably were far more learned than Adams, and who worked with Washington in his cabinet, never complained about Washington's intellectual or education capability. The problem was Adams who was critical of almost all.
MacArthur had been the Commander of our Military Forces in Korea. He had a huge ego, and he wanted to cross the border and attack China since Chinese Troops were aiding the North Vietnamese. He had previously assured the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President that the Chinese would not send troops into Korea, but he was then wrong. And when they had attacked, they had erased the territorial gains that MacArthur had previously gained. The Joint Chief’s of Staff, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State had decided upon a strategy which this time did not follow MacArthur’s strategic advice. The President approved the strategy, but MacArthur spoke and acted contrary. The President met with MacArthur and reiterated the strategy that the President approved. But MacArthur did not follow the orders of the Joint Chiefs. At the time, he and Eisenhower were America’s two most famous military leaders, and of the two MacArthur was senior and thought that he should be President. After he was fired, MacArthur addressed a Joint Session of Congress and gave his "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech which was his first active step towards the Presidency. It was a very sentimental speech with little content and nothing about why he had disobeyed orders. He was totally shocked when it was Eisenhower who was selected to run for President and not him.
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. Prince is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word prince, from the Latin noun prīncepscode: lat promoted to code: la, from primuscode: lat promoted to code: la (first) and capiocode: lat promoted to code: la (to seize), meaning "the first, foremost, the chief, most distinguished, noble ruler, prince".
