David French
speaker
1,367 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Aug
David French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And yet he set the model, and look, I know George Washington isn't perfect.
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It's not Jesus Washington, it's George Washington.
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He's not perfect, but he set a model of public service, moral rectitude, personal sacrifice, and crucially the relinquishment of power.
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that really helps sustain a moral example that helps sustain our public.
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There's a reason why he's called the father of our country.
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It's not just that he won, was the general who helped to win the Revolutionary War.
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He set an example of what the chief executive of the country is supposed to be.
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And this is one of the wealthiest men in the colonies.
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It's hard to see Elon Musk right now and say, man, that's the guy who's going to set the example of leading from the front and war, leading with moral example in peace and relinquishing power rather than gathering it, even though he had all of the power that was possible to gather in his grasp.
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and he said no to it.
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So I'm in complete agreement.
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I think the founders would be in complete agreement that a country needs a virtuous elite.
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There's always gonna be an elite.
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It needs a virtuous elite.
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And it's one of the reasons why the founders, many of them were obsessed with virtue.
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Benjamin Franklin famously had the list of virtues that he wrote and he graded himself on.
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Thomas Jefferson.
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Again, these are not perfect men by any stretch.
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I mean, I don't know if Franklin's list of virtues included chastity very much, for example.
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