whos your fav person in history and why?

Question

mine is gais julious caesar because he lived an interesting life

Answer 1

Mahatma Gandhi, because he was such a snazzy dresser.

It actually is Gandhi, because he proved that moral force is a more powerful weapon than violence. A lesson we all too often forget.

Answer 2

Alexander the Great! He's not called great for nothing. Became king of Macedon (modern day Macedonia and Northern Greece) at the age of 19, and promptly proceeded to take over most of the known world within less than 12 years (when he died, sadly, a month shy of his 33rd birthday). But he didn't just conquer people and keep them subjugated, he wanted integration between the Greeks and the Persians. He even payed for the upkeep of all the illegitimate Greek-Persian children his army produced over the years. And he used to sleep with the Iliad next to him and had dreams of seeing the edge of the world (back when they thought it was flat), discovering the source of the Nile and so on - a romantic adventurer! He also showed amazing loyalty to his friends (except once when he was drunk) and was more all-round amazing than anyone who has ever lived - except Jesus, and he doesn't really count because he was (and is) also God.

Answer 3

That's a fantastic question...

I think I'd have to go with Clarence Edward Noble Macartney. He was a Presbyterian pastor during the 1925 fundamentalist and modernist debate. A friend of William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes Trial, Macartney's life of bachelorhood and devotion to American history speaks to a unique man with an overtly devoted heart to his faith. I'd love to go back and hear him preach. I'd love to know his reactions to our world now.

But I can think of many others... Patrick Cleburne, Thomas Jefferson, Apostle Paul, FDR, etc.

Answer 4

Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson because he was passionate about his country and may have lost an eye but he kept fighting for his land. He was a great inspirer, his famous phrase which he used at the battle of trafalgar was "England expects that every man will do his duty". He is my idol because of his amazing spirit and love England.

Answer 5

Winston Churchill.
Churchill was a statesman, orator, author, historian and Prime Minister who rallied the British people in the Second World War and took them from the edge of defeat to victory.

Churchill’s leadership during the war is legendary. He became Prime minister when the Cabinet were on the verge of seeking terms with Hitler and Germany. But Churchill would not contemplate defeat or even a honourable truce. His saying was ‘We will never give in’. Churchill is credited with conducting the war single-handedly. He made himself Minister for War as well as being Prime Minister and delegated the running of home affairs to junior ministers. Churchill sat at his desk in the Cabinet Office, dictating memos and orders and giving instructions but letting others get on with it. Churchill’s true talent was leadership, not performance. Churchill had a bed in his office suite and habitually slept in the afternoon. He had by a side, in his office, a mixture of brandy and water, which was continually refreshed. Critics say that this put him in a continuously drunken state.

Churchill was a historian. He wrote The History of The English Speaking Peoples, an account not just of English history but also of the British Empire and United States. This work was designed to demonstrate that the British people and their colonies are a unique culture distinct from European civilisations.

Churchill was an author. His book My Early Life, although outwardly an autobiography, is in fact novel with the young Churchill as one of the characters. In the book, Churchill sits the entrance examination for Harrow but on taking the Latin paper, carefully wrote the title, his name and the question number 1. After further thought, he adds brackets to the number but cannot think of anything to write and his paper is smudged by an inkblot. Churchill’s comments on the wisdom of the headmaster in accepting him despite this is an ironic comment not on the inability of his younger self but on the educational system of the time.

Churchill was known for his eloquence and his ready wit. On being accused of being a turncoat for changing parties twice, Churchill reposted ‘anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.’ When an official criticised other writers for ending sentences with propositions, Churchill added a note ‘This is the sort of English, up with which I will not put’. On one occasion a lady heckler shouted ‘Sir, you are drunk’. Churchill replied ‘And you, madam are ugly, but I shall be sober, tomorrow!’

Answer 6

I think it is Chinghis Khan.(Genghis Khan) He formed Mongolia out of tribes living in the steppes and made a empire that stretched all the way from Hungary to the Sea of Okhotsk in Siberia. Plus I'm from Mongolia and over there we think of him as George Washington like you Americans do.

Answer 7

Michael Gorbachov for dragging the U S S R kicking and screaming into the 20th Century

Answer 8

I guess Mother Therese and her quotes with 'anyway':People are often unreasonable and self-centered.Forgive them anyway.
If you're kind,people can accuse you of ulterior motives.Be kind anyway.
If you're honest,people may cheat you.Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness,people may be jealous.Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,and it may never be enough.Give your best anyway.
Probably also Churchill (If you're going through hell,keep going.
By swallowing evil words unsaid won't hurt your stomach.
Never give in,never give in,never,never,never in nothing,great or small,large or petty,never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Success is not finat,failure is not fatal:it is the courage to continue that counts.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire)and James Fintan Lalor(I won't give any of his quotes cause they may seem boring and too specific).

Answer 9

A great person named A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada...

He was a great man who came to the West to teach to us love of God.

The Society He Created...

After arriving in New York City in September 1965, Srila Prabhupada struggled alone to establish his God consciousness movement. He lived simply and talked and lectured about Krsna whenever and wherever he got the opportunity to do so and gradually there was some small interest in what he was teaching.

In July of 1966, while still working alone from an obscure storefront in the Lower East Side of New York City, Srila Prabhupada founded the society intended for the entire world’s participation. He named it the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY for KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS or ISKCON for short.

At the time of the creation of his society, Srila Prabhupada had not even got one committed follower. Undeterred he enlisted volunteers from some of the regular attendees at his evenings lectures to act as ISKCON’s first trustees. That was during the very begging of ISKCON history. Today the International Society for Krishna Consciousness has more than 300 temples, farms, schools and special projects through out the world and has a strong congregation numbering in millions.

http://www.gauranga.org/prabhupada.htm

Answer 10

Cicero. cos he defended the Roman Republic ultimately with his life. He upheld the ideals of a democratic republic over a Imperial State and this was over 2000 years ago!