User blog comment:IndigoOnIceCream/What Would They Think/@comment-1738490-20120331045535

There's two kind of leaders we should distinguish.

The leaders who had a vision of future: Washington, Alexander the Great, Jose de San Martin, Simon Bolivar, Francisco de Miranda, Charles I of Spain... etc... They'll be all mad with their nations, though during in time or at leas influencing the culture of the next centuries (Alexander's case), becoming well synonyms of weakness, disarray, neglect and bad government (Third World Leaders: Bolviar, Miranda, San Martin, even may be Charles, finding Spain being a democracy and weaker than ever) or becoming synonyms of imperialism, terror, repression (Washington, Mahoma, Marx).

And then we have leaders like John Lackland, who just would be unhappy becuase they were personally afected by rebellions or wars. Or well like Francisco France who asure have an ideology to fight for but I'm sure they'd be pretty satisfied with their own period of life being succesfully.