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Who’s your favorite Founding Father?
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:07 pm
Of all the incredible minds of this great country’s beginning, I think Thomas Jefferson is my favorite.
Author of this country’s Declaration of Independence
3rd President
2nd Vice President
1st Secretary of State
Louisiana Purchase
Farmer
Architect
Probably the best writer of his generation
Violinist
Champion of Enlightenment ideas
Champion of Natural Law, consent of the governed, limited government
The Declaration of Independence is just the Mona Lisa of any political piece of paper.
Who’s your favorite?
Author of this country’s Declaration of Independence
3rd President
2nd Vice President
1st Secretary of State
Louisiana Purchase
Farmer
Architect
Probably the best writer of his generation
Violinist
Champion of Enlightenment ideas
Champion of Natural Law, consent of the governed, limited government
The Declaration of Independence is just the Mona Lisa of any political piece of paper.
Who’s your favorite?
This post was edited on 7/4/18 at 12:08 pm
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Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:09 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Orville Redenbacher
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:09 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Jefferson
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:09 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
GEORGE
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:10 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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Probably the best writer of his generation
Alexander Hamilton has a pretty strong claim to that.
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:10 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Larry Leo
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:10 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
GW
But watching John Adams gave me a much greater appreciation of his role as a founder.
Or a much greater appreciation of Paul Giamatti.
I’m not sure
But watching John Adams gave me a much greater appreciation of his role as a founder.
Or a much greater appreciation of Paul Giamatti.
I’m not sure
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:11 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:11 pm to O
Hamilton wanted to have a massively powerful central government. Not a Hamilton fan.
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:11 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Father Time
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:11 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
The founding fathers are racist. Not a single one that isn’t a white man
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:12 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Jefferson as the greatest founder. Washington as the greatest leader and president. Hands down. Though, Franklin has a pretty good claim as the "best all around".
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:12 pm to Ash Williams
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But watching John Adams gave me a much greater appreciation of his role as a founder.
Without John Adams, I don’t think we even have a Declaration of Independence.
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:12 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:13 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
John Adams, oft overlooked but an important voice in our founding. Bonus he didn't own slaves.
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:14 pm to Gr8t8s
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Jefferson as the greatest founder. Washington as the greatest leader and president. Hands down. Though, Franklin has a pretty good claim as the "best all around".
I’d agree with this.
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:16 pm to heatom2
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John Adams, oft overlooked but an important voice in our founding. Bonus he didn't own slaves.
Adams is definitely overlooked. Sandwiched between the first President who commanded the Continental Army through the Revolution and the third President and the guy who wrote the Declaration and Louisiana Purchase.
I also refuse to hold the slavery thing against those men. They would’ve never gotten the Declaration signed had they tried to tackle the slavery issue then. Furthermore, Jefferson wrote twelve different pieces of law that would’ve immediately or gradually emancipated the slaves while he was in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Not a single one was enacted.
This post was edited on 7/4/18 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:16 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:17 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
It took all of them, plus many that history has forgotten I’m sure, to give us the Constitution and republic we are destroying, but it would have all been for naught if not for Washington.
Posted on 7/4/18 at 12:18 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Thomas Jefferson. The one I think I could sit down with and talk agriculture, but if he were to land in our library, he'd probably go to the gardening books and stay immersed for a month or so.
If you like Jefferson the gardener, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society owns his garden notebook and has put the whole thing on line. A great read that yields an appreciation of another side of the man.
If you like Jefferson the gardener, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society owns his garden notebook and has put the whole thing on line. A great read that yields an appreciation of another side of the man.
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