John Adams and John Q Adams were completely against slavery. Jefferson and Washington owned them, but are considered great. Just keep that in mind when you answer.
2006-11-01 16:14:45 · 7 answers · asked by lucky 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
This is a difficult question. In all honesty I would have to say George Washington, the father of our nation, due to his great humility. The people of the time were so impressed with his great leadership that they wanted to make him "King" of the United States, but he refused.
When one reads the historical battle accounts that Washington fought in with savage Indians and the British, one wonders if the supernatural Divine Hand of God was actually present to protect this Father of Democracy, for even Indian chiefs greatly marveled over how no injury in horrid battles dared to ever mar him.
Of course, he was a slave owner as was a common phenomenon in the colonial period, but what Modern Liberals do not understand that many of these northern slave owners were not brutal beasts as commonly portrayed in Leftist Hollywood propaganda movies, but rather they treated their slaves as an extension to their own family. Somehow this has gotten entirely lost in the history telling. Even when slaves were finally liberated, many did not want to leave their White masters due to the great family ties and sense of belonging.
2006-11-01 18:23:19 · answer #1 · answered by . 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Although I'm inclined to say Abraham Lincoln, his suspension of the writ of habeaus corpus during the Civil War makes me think less of his "greatness."
I would have to go with FDR on this one. Although I'm not a huge fan of his expansion of government power, his ability to help the nation out of Depression and successfully through the Second World War seems almost unreal. His ability to lead a broken nation through two of its toughest struggles, launching the US into superpower... that pretty much fulfills my definition of "great."
2006-11-02 00:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by bluebelly83 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd have to go with FDR; his New Deal programs helped the most people. His leadership during WWII (here and with the Lend Lease programs defending other nations) hlps a lot as well.
2006-11-02 01:32:28 · answer #3 · answered by adphllps 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Greatest human being?"...Jimmy Carter, and he's still doing it..."Giving himself to others."
There are several others that were great, but were "great" in other ways. And he certainly wasn't the greatest President but greatest "human being?"...Jimmy Carter.
2006-11-02 00:28:25 · answer #4 · answered by tichur 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would say anyone but George Bush and his dad, for putting George Bush into this state.
2006-11-02 00:18:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
JFK
2006-11-02 00:50:00 · answer #6 · answered by Donna B 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
2006-11-02 00:16:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋