P Coderch said...
Only an American could think that Benjamin Franklin was the greatest man who ever lived. Outside the U.S, most people don't even know that he ever existed. Americans have this fanatical infatuation with their Founding Fathers that borders on comical. Most of them were slave-owning, ignorant farmers who just happened to lead the U.S to independence because they were tired of paying taxes to England. George Washington, for instance, had his IQ estimated at 115 by Hans Eysenck.of my head, I can think of several men who dwarf any of the American Founding Fathers in both reknown and historical impact on Humanity: Alexander the Great, Tamerlane, Aristotle, Richard the Lionhearted, Charlemagne, Siddharta Gautama, Newton, Bismarck, king Ramses, Octavian, Columbus, Julius Caesar, Leonardo DaVinci, Descartes, Isabel of Castilla, Qin Shi Huang Di, Ghandi, Magellan, etc. All these people were greater achievers because their achievements are much better known by non-Americans than what the American Founding Fathers did, and non-Americans represent 96% of Humnanity. So they win.
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/10/most-successful-man-in-history.html