Which Historical figure do you most admire and why?

Question

Historical figure you most admire.

Answer 1

Churchill and Martin Luther King - - - so far cool answer - - - since I am on this American Revolution kick gonna shout out for the Forgotten Patriot. John Adams - - - without him there might not have been An American Revolution not that it was an effort by a single man but several singular men held the Revolution together. John Adams endured. People actively disliked him for his intellect his supposed coldness & prickly nature and they poked fun at a man who was pudgy & bald before age thirty. A man later dubbed 'His Rotundancy,' Adams was frequently accussed of being an aristocrat a fat cat who lined his purse at others expence and despite Adams invaluable service to the Revolution and the Peace, the multi-headed beast first called Anti-Federalist and later Democratic-Republicans, the Beast went to great expense to spread the lie that Adams wanted to be King or failing that would somehow hand America back to Engand.
The Truth?
A lawyer & Politician by Trade, that was how John Adams made his money but he called himself a Farmer and he was a Farmer, proud of his scant acres of stony New England Soil. No genteman farmer, a dillettente on horseback watching the darkies dig in the muck, NO, this son of New England enjoyed Work behind the plow or plucking weeds. In fact Adams Favorite Pastime was Mowing Hay. He nurtured his grass crop and when it was time to Harvest Adams did it with skill and sweat and love.
Yet people shove Adams aside. He is that Second odd looking man standing alongside the great First President George Washington, and Adams is overshadowed his rival, not by Adams choice, but by the choice if the egotist Thomas Jefferson the Sainted writer of the Declaration of Indepence.

As for Adams - - - he edited that document and produced hundreds of dazzling documents estanlishing the framework of Democracy. Adams worls, all readable and worthy today in 2007, his writings fill a Libary. For all his fame and worthy accomplishments, Jeffersons documents could fit into a drawer.

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Answer 2

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Answer 4

Definitely Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher is a close second. I would have to say that they have been this country's strongest ever leaders and came through in times of need.

This country needs another leader like these 2 to put the Great back into Britain. Unfortunately all we have is limp wristed appeasers who jump as soon as the US tells them.

Answer 5

Martin Luther King Jr I guess....because for obvious reasons, he was the catalyst for equality and racial reform in this country. I hate racism and I can't stand seggration; unfortunately it still exists in this country, but his peaceful movement really had a huge impact.

Answer 6

First, George Washington. Second, Ronald Reagan.

The reason is b/c they were both Republicans. That's right, GW was a Federalist and is today most closely associated with the Republican party, as opposed to the democrats who are the slavery party! Both of them made level-headed, common sense decisions and were decisive. I need not explain why b/c it should be obvious to anyone with a semblance of a brain!

Answer 7

Emiliano Zapata - a Mexican revolutionary.
I admire people who have a vision, and can see what needs to be changed, and which corrupt leaders need to be taken out of office.

Answer 8

I have to select Lincoln, even considering a great many other people of all eras. Partly this is because I do know more about Lincoln than I do about the others.

He had to make decisions that must have scared him to death, but I appreciate his resolve and his courage in staying the course when others might have caved.

Answer 9

Winston Churchill. For years he recognized the threat Nazi Germany was on the free world and no one listened to him. But when his warnings finally came to reality, he stepped up, and led the British empire. The Brits were all alone for 2 years against Nazi Germany, and he led them and inspired them to stay strong and ultimiately win the war.

He even warned us against the Communist menace, but we didn't listen quite hard enough.

Answer 10

Martin Luther King,Jr. for what he started to accomplish and his approach ie civil disobedience by non-violent means.That he died the way he did reinforces the dichotomy of the human condition.No justice,plenty of hatred etc etc...so it goes.