My ten favorite Americans of all time.

[TruthIsAll]

For what it's worth.

What did they have in common?

ALL TRUTH. ALL THE TIME.

In order of apppearance:

Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Mark Twain
Edward R. Murrow

Ted Williams
Pee Wee Reese
Jackie Robinson
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King

[Snellius]

1. FDR and Wellstone and Annie Oakley and Steinbeck

and all those scared kids floating face down in the ocean on Normandy beach,

[NightTrain]

2. Something else they have in common.

They're all males.

[Cleita]

3. Yeah, I noticed that.

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[blue neen]

4. Here are ten more. You really made me think!

In no particular order:


Bobby Kennedy
Jackie Kennedy
George Washington
Jesse Owens
Abraham Lincoln

Susan B. Anthony
Col. Joshua Chamberlain
Patsy Cline
Eleanor Roosevelt

AND
My Dad

[BrotherBuzz]

5. I feel the need to throw Will Rogers into the mix

[Mizmoon]

6. Alice Paul

She's one of my very favorites!

[mark11727]

7. Benjamin Franklin, just for the fun of it.

[TheDonkey]

9. I believe he is one of the greatest American's

what a thinker. We could use someone of his intellect and grace in these times.

[kodi]

16. from Franklin came the American character de Tocqueville praised.

Franklin (along with Washington) are the best Americans. Franklin's civic efforts and life exemplified the promise of America. The civic participation he instilled in the American cultural landscape is, 250 years later still unique to the world. No nation has the breadth and depth of civic organizations of ordinary folk who band together to promote some public good. It is a distinctly Franklin-esque trait and comes from his personal philosophy that a citizen has a right and obligation to promote the advancement of the nation.

His insight of advocating the Iroquois Confederacy's Great Law of Peace as a model for the Albany Plan of 1754(which itself was a model for the US Constitution) was entirely a stroke of pure genius.

Washington was the man who held the army together. Franklin held together American diplomacy. Without his prestige and skills France would have never aided the American colonies.

Without either of those men we would still be singing "God save the Queen."

[DivinBreuvage]

8. John Brown

"I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

[wellstone_democrat]

13. Yeah, John Brown!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Sam Adams
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
FDR
my grandfather
Johnny Cash
Al Gore
Harriet Tubman


no particular order, just as I thought of 'em. I could easily add 50 more.

[DemWitch]

10. hmmmm...

As a group... Veterans and those who died in service to our country
As a group... The passengers of Flight 93
Abe Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Lyndon Johnson
Susan Mc Dougal
and of course...
My Mom
My Dad

[medeak]

11. Jimmy Carter!

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[Skittles]

12. they are all men???

:(

[AngryAmish]

14. Any list that does not have Michael Irvin is a farce

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. How 'bout some music top 10?

Elvis Presley
Miles Davis
Patsy Cline
Hank Williams
Frank Sinatra
Little Richard
Dave Brubeck
Duke Ellington
Louie Armstrong
Billie Holliday
Johnny Cash
Bob Dylan
Ella Fitzgerald
Jimi Hendrix

Hell, this thing could go on forever.

[Selwynn]

17. My 10: John L. Yoder, Laurel E. Yoder, A. Andrew Lance, Elinor Merrick,

Sean G. Cleave, Jeremy P. Potter, Denice Miller, Michael E. Lodhal, Diane Leclerc, Robert Thompson.

Those are my ten favorite Americans of all time. You probably haven't heard of them, but each of them have played a role in changing my life for the better. :)

[DerekG]

18. Here's ten shit-stormers for ya!

Politicians:

John Quincy Adams
Abraham Lincoln
William Jennings Bryan
Eugene Debs
Huey Long
Eleanor Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Bobby Kennedy
Paul Wellstone
Dennis Kucinich

Others:

Daniel Shays
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Mark Twain
Emma Goldman
John Steinbeck
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Daniel Ellsberg
Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan

[LibraLabSoldier]

19. what about

Audey Murphy?

[sweetheart]

20. The 10 for me

1. Martin Luther King
2. Franklin Jones, AKA Adida
3. Antoinette Varner, AKA Gangaji
4. Eli Jaxon-Bear
5. Frederick Lenz, AKA Rama

Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Roberta Flak
Hillary Clinton
Dennis Kucinich

[Vickers]

21. Michael Moore, Kurt Vonnegut, Woody Guthrie,

and a bunch of others.

[treepig]

22. your family's not on the list?

and isn't Mark Twain a fictional character? (or pen-name at least - that doesn't really fit the ALL TRUTH. ALL THE TIME meme - and i gotta say mr. jefferson's and mr. kennedy's extramarital affairs, while really none of my or anyone's business, also detract from the "TRUTH" reputation)