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Bookmark or Share- Did Gen. Patton say "We defeated the wrong enemy?"Patton was relieved of command of the 3rd Army by Eisenhower just after the end of the war for stating publicly that America had been fighting the wrong enemy— Germany instead of Russia. According to the 1987 book Cannon fodder: growing up for Vietnam the exact quote is: We may have been fighting the wrong enemy (Germany) all along.
- Were all but one of the US presidents descended from King John of England?A 12-year-old girl created family tree linking 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to King John of England, who signed the Magna Carta in 1215. Only the eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was not related to John. This has been recently spreading on news web-sites and Facebook, especially by conspiracy theorists. Is this true?
- quotes martin-luther-king - Skeptics Stack ExchangeAccording to 54,900 Google results, Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1961: Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58 percent of its crimes...
- united states - Did Martin Luther King, Jr. say that "I will not ...Dovey said "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy", and then quoted Martin Luther King Jr.: "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
- quotes martin-luther-king - Skeptics Stack ExchangeHowever, no proof is given that Martin Luther King, Jr. ever said it either. Skye Jethian concurs: Strangely, the line was used on more than one occasion by Martin Luther King Jr. as well and it sometimes falsely attributed as original. But that is neither here nor there. Anyway, no documentation it was originated by either.
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