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Comment author: buybuydandavis 11 August 2014 10:10:25AM 5 points [-]

"The American Revolution had a charismatic military figure in George Washington, but he wasn't very political. He was idealistic, but not impractical or messianic. AFAIK, the Revolution didn't promulgate any ideals that it failed to deliver on."

George Washington was the general, but Thomas Paine was the popular ideologue.