Most surveys agree that the top five presidents are:
George Washington (the first president of the United States)
Abraham Lincoln (led the United States through the American Civil War and ended slavery)
Franklin Roosevelt (elected four times and led the country through the Great Depression and World War II).
John F. Kennedy (presided over the Cuban Missile Crisis)
Ronald Reagan (presided over the end of the Cold War and restored the economy)
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
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