Would You Argue That Ron Paul is the Greatest Political Figure in American History?

[AGRP]

Our founders didn't have to deal with the red tape that there is today. So many tools that they used were essentially free to use. They essentially created something from scratch.

Ron Paul cracked the present matrix and is opening the minds of millions against the wishes of our current all powerful tyranny. Ron dosent have to even become the president to be the greatest. Look at Ben Franklin. Ben was so great that many believe he was a president.

 

[sevin]

I dunno. Andrew Jackson was pretty badass.

 

[Cutlerzzz]

Maybe, but I definately would not tell that to someone I'm trying to convert. lol

 

[Galileo Galilei]

Hall of Fame for Great Americans

The first 29 people to be elected in the year 1900 were:

George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Webster
Benjamin Franklin
Ulysses S. Grant
John Marshall
Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Fulton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Washington Irving
Jonathan Edwards
Samuel F. B. Morse
David G. Farragut
Henry Clay
George Peabody
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Peter Cooper
Eli Whitney
Robert E. Lee
Horace Mann
John James Audubon
James Kent
Henry Ward Beecher
Joseph Story
John Adams
William Ellery Channing
Gilbert Stuart
Asa Gray

Added in 1905:

John Quincy Adams
James Russell Lowell
Mary Lyon
William T. Sherman
James Madison
John Greenleaf Whittier
Emma Willard
Maria Mitchell

Added in 1910:

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Edgar Allan Poe
James Fenimore Cooper
Phillips Brooks
William Cullen Bryant
Frances E. Willard
Andrew Jackson
George Bancroft
John Lothrop Motley

Added in 1915:

Alexander Hamilton
Mark Hopkins
Francis Parkman
Louis Agassiz
Elias Howe
Joseph Henry
Charlotte Cushman
Rufus Choate
Daniel Boone

Added in 1920:

William Thomas Morton
Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Roger Williams
Patrick Henry
Alice Freeman Palmer
James Buchanan Eads

Added in 1925:

Edwin Booth
John Paul Jones

Added in 1930:

James McNeill Whistler
James Monroe
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Walt Whitman

Added in 1935:

William Penn
Simon Newcomb
Grover Cleveland

Added in 1940:

Stephen Foster

Added in 1945:

Booker T. Washington
Thomas Paine
Walter Reed
Sidney Lanier

Added in 1950:

William C. Gorgas
Woodrow Wilson
Susan B. Anthony
Alexander Graham Bell
Theodore Roosevelt
Josiah W. Gibbs

Added in 1955:

Wilbur Wright
Thomas J. Jackson
George Westinghouse

Added in 1960:

Thomas Alva Edison
Henry David Thoreau
Edward A. MacDowell

Added in 1965:

Jane Addams
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sylvanus Thayer
Orville Wright

Added in 1970:

Albert A. Michelson
Lillian Wald

Added in 1973:

George Washington Carver
Louis D. Brandeis
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Philip Sousa

Added in 1976:

Clara Barton
Luther Burbank
Andrew Carnegie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_Fame_for_Great_Americans

 

[RonPaulGetsIt]

Yes Ron Paul is in a league of his own. He was a voice in the wilderness for DECADES and persevered. The others lived in a time where freedom and liberty were more well understood.

 

[falconplayer11]

I would argue yes. Ron Paul is the most admirable and best political figures in American history, as far as I know.

(Andrew Jackson was cool, but he did some things that were very immoral.)

 

[muzzled dogg]

lol @ list w/ lincoln and fdr

 

[sevin]

I though of another great political figure: Larry McDonald

From Wikipedia:

McDonald—who considered himself a traditional Democrat "cut from the cloth of Jefferson and Jackson"—was known for his conservative views, even by Southern standards. Given his Old Right and Southern views he was more conservative than the Republican party. In fact, one scoring method published in the American Journal of Political Science named him the second most conservative member of either chamber of Congress between 1937 and 2002 (behind only Ron Paul). The American Conservative Union gave him a perfect score of 100 every year he was in the House of Representatives, except in 1978, when he scored a 95. He also scored "perfect or near perfect ratings" on the congressional scorecards of the National Right to Life Committee, Gun Owners of America, and the American Security Council....He took the communist threat seriously and considered it an international conspiracy. An admirer of Austrian economics and a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he was an advocate of tight monetary policy in the late 1970s to get the economy out of stagflation, and advocated returning to the gold standard. McDonald called the welfare state a "disaster" and favored phasing control of the Great Society programs over to the states to operate and run. He also favored cuts to foreign aid, saying "To me, foreign aid is an area that you not only can cut but you could take a chainsaw to in terms of reductions."[

Check out his wikipedia entry and scroll down to the quotes section. From what I've read, he was a pretty amazing guy.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

lol @ list w/ lincoln and fdr

It gives you an idea of which Americans were admired at different times in our history. The Hall has a northern bias, but was located in the North. I thought it was a little crazy that James Madison didn't make it in until the 2nd group. Ron Paul could make it in someday if he wins some primaries and stays in the House for another 5 years.

 

[dejavu22]

I would argue he may be the greatest living American political figure but there are far too many people who should be considered if u are going all time.

Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Van Buren, Tyler, Cleveland, Coolidge, Goldwater

 

[White Bear Lake]

Eh, he's up there but I would put Senators Taft and Goldwater ahead of him.

 

[sailingaway]

I like him better than any of them that I can think of off hand, but I'd have to think about it, I might be forgetting someone.

He's pretty special, though, in actually living his principles. That is rare anywhere, and practically unheard of in politics.

 

[trey4sports]

Simple answer, yes.

 

[sailingaway]

Maybe, but I definately would not tell that to someone I'm trying to convert. lol

LOL! This.

 

[HRD53]

I though of another great political figure: Larry McDonald

From Wikipedia:



Check out his wikipedia entry and scroll down to the quotes section. From what I've read, he was a pretty amazing guy.

He is a guy that kind of slipped through the cracks... would have been really interesting to see him and Ron attacking the federal government from both sides of the aisle through the years...

 

[doctor jones]

Yes I definitely think so and history books in the future will have to have a chapter on him.

 

[thehighwaymanq]

Yes I definitely think so and history books in the future will have to have a chapter on him.

HA! That's a joke right. His name will never be in any school history books

 

[eproxy100]

I though of another great political figure: Larry McDonald

From Wikipedia:



Check out his wikipedia entry and scroll down to the quotes section. From what I've read, he was a pretty amazing guy.

Yeah, really interesting guy. He was a "conspiracy theorist wacko" too who apparently believed in the existence of an organization like the NWO.

 

[MaxPower]

I dunno. Andrew Jackson was pretty badass.

Trail of Tears.

 

[blocks]

Maybe, but I definately would not tell that to someone I'm trying to convert. lol

This^