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Confucius:*
Confucius's principles have commonality with Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor veneration, and respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives, recommending family as the basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself", the Golden Rule. He is also a traditional deity in Daoism.
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Cromwellian: *
Cromwell was elected MP 1628, and later sat in the Short, Long, Rump & Barebones parliaments (1640-53); leader of Parliamentary armies in Civil War, demonstrated his ability as a commander, quickly promoted from leading a single cavalry troop to principal commander of the New Model Army, played critical role in defeating royalist forces; a signatory of King Charles I's death warrant (1649); commanded English forces in Ireland & Scotland (1649–1651), crushing all resistance. In 1653 following Barebones parliament, was asked to serve as Lord Protector of England, Scotland & Ireland. He executed an aggressive and effective foreign policy.
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memorandum…(1672): *
Leibniz worked for the Elector of Mainz during a period when Germany lay shattered by the devastating Thirty Years War (1618-48); many Germans feared Louis XIV. Leibniz suggested France be invited to take Egypt as a stepping stone towards an eventual conquest of the Dutch East Indies. In return, France would agree to leave Germany and the Netherlands undisturbed. It was a perfect distraction. The Elector gave cautious support and in 1672 the French government invited Leibniz to Paris for discussions. In fact the plan was soon overtaken by the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War and became irrelevant. Napoleon's failed invasion of Egypt in 1798 can be seen as an unwitting, late implementation of Leibniz's 1672 idea.