George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
“Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.”
The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Introduction
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