Don’t be misled by history or any other unreliable source.

Will Rogers

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Will Rogers had lots of things to say about a variety of different subjects. This quote kinda goes along with the one

History belongs to the victors

Of course, that means that whoever comes out ahead in a conflict is almost always the one to record his story in the annals of history. Sometimes it takes centuries before that mistake is corrected. However, there is another side to this type of thing, and that is judging a person by today’s standards instead of the period in which he or she lived. The fact that almost all of the founding fathers of the USA were slaveholders. Some even birthed children from midnight visits to slave quarters.