In my opinion, Abraham Lincoln is the greatest because he save the nation from its greatest challenge. He came from a humble beginning and was a great speaker, tolerant and patient. However, I would like to know your opinion.
Definitely Abraham LincIon because he is the father of democracy though democracy has lots of implications and shortcomings nowadays!
While I would agree with Abraham Lincoln presidents amongst the Founding Fathers appear of far greater consequence than many sense, although a strong case can be made for Franklin Roosevelt. But there are so few......Is it the case that the role, for whatever reason, encourages the second rate, or worse, to obtain office?
The shortcomings of democracy? Debate, discourse, humanity? Compared to other systems often merely promoting power, ignorance and tyranny? Democracies short-comings are other systems virtues!
The greatest was Lincoln because he literally fought to make the U.S. consistent with the concept of inalienable rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
He was not the "father of democracy" since democracy has existed since the time of the ancient Greeks. Moreover, the U.S. is not specifically a democracy; it is a constitutional republic. It was that united republic (Lincoln was a Republican) and the constitution of inalienable rights that Lincoln fought for and, some would say, died for.
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