"Government is not Reason; Government is not Eloquence;

Government is a Force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant, and a fearsome master."

The experts say that there is no evidence that George Washington is the originator of this saying, but that only diminishes George Washington. A different bunch of experts, working from much flimsier evidence, say he merely had an IQ of about 125. About that of the average lawyer, doctor or physicist (I'm guessing). Those experts make the same claim for Napoleon. Yet each of those men surpassed all others in their respective fields; Napoleon as a commander of armies and Washington as a statesman.

Whoever said it was a flaming genius.