BEST Leaders

by **Verdeguay** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:01 pm

Who, in your opinion, were the best (or least bad, if you're an anarchist and/or dislike them all) world leaders (heads of state and/or heads of government) of all time? Fictional leaders don't count.

I think the least bad ones were José Figueres Ferrer, Seretse Khama, Rómulo Betancourt, Mohammad Mossadegh, and William Henry Harrison.

by **Mike the Progressive** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:03 pm

So no David Palmer?

by **Seheron** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:06 pm

Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ronald Reagan.

by **Italiani a Roma** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:06 pm

Justinian has my vote. When the Muslims took Constaninople they left his portrait on the Hagia Sofia. They don't usually allow portraits in their places of worship.

by **Maryginia** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:08 pm

Thomas Jefferson

by **New Manvir** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:14 pm

Dear Leader of Best Korea, Kim Jong-Il.

by **Xenohumanity** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:16 pm

will.i.am.
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by **Kruplyan** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:20 pm

Winston Churchill, George Washington, The Gypper, Franz Ferdinand.

by **Schwabenreich** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:24 pm

Friedrich II von Preußen, Frederick I Barbarossa, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, Gustav II Adolf, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck... probably a few more that don't immediately come to mind. Though I don't know what qualifies as a world leader, all were the heads of very influencial nation states.

by **Kingdom-democracy** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:25 pm

Verdeguay wrote:Who, in your opinion, were the best (or least bad, if you're an anarchist and/or dislike them all) world leaders of all time? Fictional leaders don't count.

I think the least bad ones were José Figueres Ferrer, Seretse Khama, Rómulo Betancourt, Mohammad Mossadegh, and William Henry Harrison.

I think there's a tie between all of them they all suck equaly

Since fictional leaders don't count can future leaders count? Cause it is obviously me.

lol IDK XD

by **Wamitoria** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:26 pm

1. Gaius Julius Caesar
2. Otto von Bismarck
3. Napoleon Bonaparte
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Clement Atlee
6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Ho Chi Minh
9. Vladimir Putin
10. Sultan Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūbi [aka: Saladin]

by **Mike the Progressive** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:27 pm

Xenohumanity wrote:will.i.am.
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^this.

by **Pesda** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:30 pm

Jesus

by **Olthar** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:31 pm

Teddy Roosevelt. His sheer testosterone-filled manliness crushes all other leaders.

by **Pawn and King** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:34 pm

Verdeguay wrote:Who, in your opinion, were the best (or least bad, if you're an anarchist and/or dislike them all) world leaders of all time? Fictional leaders don't count.

I think the least bad ones were José Figueres Ferrer, Seretse Khama, Rómulo Betancourt, Mohammad Mossadegh, and William Henry Harrison.

Queen Victoria wasn't too bad. Neither was Elizabeth I. Both saw their country through a time of golden achievement and motivated people and the such like.

by **Ravea** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:22 pm

Ashoka the Great. Killed tons of people, regretted it, converted to Buddhism, rejected violence entirely, built a ton of hospitals and waterways and schools, instituted public education (for women as well), completely devoted himself to his people, and was all in all a great king.

by **Yootwopia** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:25 pm

Attlee. Despite inheriting a financial position significantly worse than the current one in Britain, he reduced the deficit while at the same time creating the modern welfare state. Can't really fault the postwar government.

by **Occupied Deutschland** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:28 pm

William Henry Harrison.

And if you can formulate a reason why he wasn't a great leader, you have an abnormal understanding of history.

by **Smartephant** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:02 pm

Norman Borlaug. He is started and led the Green Revolution and is the single greatest person to have ever lived. End of story.

by **Thurask** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:33 pm

Churchill, Mossadegh and FDR.

by **Yootwopia** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:36 pm

Thurask wrote:Churchill, Mossadegh and FDR.

Liking Churchill and Mossadegh is kinda lulzy, not gonna lie.

by **Hathradic States** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:18 pm

Patton, Rommel, Bismark, Qin the Great, Caeser, Draco.

by **Mike the Progressive** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:21 pm

Occupied Deutschland wrote:William Henry Harrison.

And if you can formulate a reason why he wasn't a great leader, you have an abnormal understanding of history.

All I know is that his nickname was Tippercanoe, he was a general in the war of 1812, and he died in office....don't know much about his presidency though, died in office?

by **Marcurix** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:59 pm

Well in no particular order:
Otto von Bismarck
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
Oda Nobunaga
Tokugawa Ieyasu
FDR
Gaius Julius Caesar
Duke of Wellington
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I'll probably add more later.

by **Phoneboothknifefights** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:48 am

Deng Xiaoping deserves a mention. There was the Tianenmen Square tragedy, true, but his policies were the most directly responsible in China's reversal of fortune. Also, I tend to identify with leaders who stress pragmatism over ideology.

Oh and Henry V, if anything Shakespeare wrote about him was true.

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