I your opinion, who was the greatest American President?

Answer 1

Franklin D. Roosevelt. Was great with the american people and foreign leaders. If not for him, the Great Depression would now be named the Horrendous Depression...

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln by far and away the best. He probably was President at a period of time likely the worst time in all of the history of the United States. Lincoln was a decent gentleman. He embodied the best of what a good politician could do, what an honest politician could do and what a caring man can do.

He was the President who began the long terrible process of recognizing that Americans of African ancestry are people, American people. He stuck to the terrible bloody process of keeping the United States united.

I cannot recall even him expressing harsh personal attacks on the leaders of the Confederacy, Just that he thought and he politely and strongly advocated that they were very wrong in their quest to split the nation.

He probably was the most intelligent of all the Presidents. Certainly he knew how to deliver the message. How much so? How can we prove he is the best amongst excellent men? Well by these following words. His words.

And I quote him.

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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

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No other leader. On the planet. In history. At any time. Ever delivered such a powerful, perceptive, or moving speech as was those words. None better.

The question isn't whether he was the best President, no. The question should be was he indeed the greatest democratically elected leader of all the planet, of all time.

Answer 3

I can live with any of the above except for Reagan and Wilson.

You can name Reagan only if you had nothing to do personally with that administration by pr, which took a befuddled old man out into cameras, where he could still read his lines convincingly, even if he didn't know what they meant, which was often the case.

I have nothing against Wilson's first term -- he was of course the first Democrat to win with a slight plurality of the popular vote, and he was a vicious racist, but that was nothing uncommon at the time.

But his second term, oh my! Not only did he get the US into a war that had nothing to do with us and that he had been reelected on a promise to avoid, but he enforced that decision with the worst attack on civil liberties ever -- Lord, it took Warren Harding to let Gene Debs out of jail for having spoken against the war.

And never mind that he passed much of this term promoting a stupid policy of breaking up the Ottoman and Austrohungarian empires, creating no end of trouble. He spent the rest of it less a president than your usual fried potato.

Answer 4

Okay in response to the answer about George Washington and now US. There would still have been a USA, but a different first president.

In my opinion it is either Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Answer 5

George Washington

Answer 6

As a non-American citizen, I would say Abraham Lincoln was the greatest by a mile.
His ideals and deeds are cherished by the entire human race. We need more people like Abe all over the world.

Answer 7

Non existent if looking for a leader...theyre all pawns for the Freemasons/ Illuminati from Washington to Lincoln to Roosevelt to Nixon to Clinton & Bush. Why then do these presidents have the skull of Geronimo at the Skull & crossbones at their Yale meeting house?

Answer 8

Lincoln

Answer 9

Lincoln

Answer 10

Teddy Roosevelt