Considering that much of his motivation to rebel was wanting to expand into Native territory beyond the boundary set by the British and that he spent much of his presidency enforcing slave laws no I would not call him a gentleman farmer, I'd call him an exploitative invader.
**** George Washington.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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