Andrew Jackson Quotes
Is Mr. [John Quincy] Adams demented, or is he perversely wicked? Both, I think, and Adams ought to be confined to a hospital.
Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845, 7th President of the United States (Democrat, TN), Comment about Ex-President John Quincy Adams who had become a Congressman, Letter to William B. Lewis, February 27, 1842
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Pound was not only an admirer of Mussolini and Fascism, but actually was a traitor and became a propagandist for the Axis in WWII. At his treason trial after the war, he had a breakdown and was committed to a mental hospital as he was not fit to stand trial. He was hospitalized for 12 years.
During the 1956 Suez crisis, President Eisenhower, distressed at the British invasion of Egypt, phoned British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Although he didn't realize it, Eisenhower was actually addressing Eden's press secretary:
In the early part of Jinnah's career he was totally stable and regarded as one of the leading politicians in all of India. However, after some terrible personal tragedies he was changed and was no longer very influential. In his later years he reemerged as the Leader of the Muslim League which in itself was different as he had always represented Indians without regard to religion. He also had become very rigid, egotistical, and aloof and exhibited a number of unbalanced behaviors that led Mountbatten to conclude that Jinnah had become a psychopath in his elder years. In negotiations he was very aggressive, unbending and was not interested in any compromise in negotiations which made them unfruitful and often useless. He was then 70." 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. The title was a take-off on the film, The Madness of King George, that described a demented king of England.
1st Marquis of Peña Plata
Even though a Muslim and one of the senior members of Jinnah's Muslim League, he thought that Jinnah and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee were delusional about being able to have a Muslim nation encompassing the Punjab. He was right, and hundreds of thousands died in Sikh-Muslim attacks and then Hindu-Muslim conflict in the Punjab. Khizar left politics and would not take any post in Pakistan after the partition of the Punjab and the slaughter that followed.
Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. An expansionist president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.
