Greatest leader/ruler of all time?

Caesar 29
Odysseus 9
Hitler 197
Alexander the Great 28
Joseph II 0
Genghis Khan 18
Queen Elizabeth I 20
Charlemagne 6
Napoleon 13
Abraham Lincoln 35
Mahatma Gandhi 40
Martin Luther King Jr 37
Other (Add a comment) 37
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  • bridget37

    It's obvious........ Winston Churchill, and he's not even on your list!

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  • haze_hypnosis

    Col Muammar Gaddafi IMO

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  • Megid

    Other: Kim Jong-Il

    R.I.P.

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  • My answer is Christ. This Judean carpenter who (probably) didn't know how to read or write altered the destiny of billions by telling simple fables even children could understand.

    And he did it in ---3 years---. He accomplished more in 3 years than whole civilizations accomplish in 80 years. Or 1000.

    There are lessons to be learned from him.

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    • zoffix

      Yes, 2000 years later people are still murdering each other over him. Great leader indeed </sarcasm>. But I suppose that's quite an achievement for someone who never existed.

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    • from who

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  • MissyLeyneous

    I didn't see Stalin on there.... :/

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    • yngveohlin

      exactly.

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  • dom180

    Hitler was the best as a leader, but had the worst policies. Most of those are from different cultures and time periods, so they can't really be compared to each other.

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    • balar

      Hitler was hopeless as a leader. Disorganized, superstitious, short-sighted, temperamental, insecure. He had the means to succeed in WWII and failed laughably. He made one incorrect decision after another and only looks successful retrospectively because of luck and circumstance.

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      • blackmesa

        True story. 'Don't get where these people are getting that he was a ''great'' leader. Every general feared him because of his insanity, he killed and harassed every follower he had if there was the lightest hint of treason and he did a terrible job at fighting the war. And then there is the part were he was fucking nuts and a despicable human being.

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      • dom180

        I disagree. His speeches were amazing. He could rally a crowd like no other. During WWII he began to drift into insanity and he made some poor tactical decisions, but just because he was an imperfect military tactician does not stop him from being a great leader of men non-militarily.

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        • robbieforgotpw

          He was a good speaker or community organizer, remind you of anyone?

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        • loopoo

          He was a great politician though, he turned Germany around brilliantly, just a shame about his beliefs.

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  • chicken471bologna

    Ron Paul

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    • he sucks like Obama does www.hightimes.com

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  • MahBoi24

    King Harkinian, of course!!!

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  • Garglemysac

    Adolf Hitler for sure.

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  • mizeka

    Hitler or Caesar. Not that I admire either of them, but it's still a fact that they were great (=successful) leaders.

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  • DADNSCAL

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt hands down. He led this country out of the depression and through WWII. The last patrician public servant we've has.

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  • sillygirl77

    all you people who said Hitler... I wonder how you'd like being burned alive or gassed or have inhumane experiments done on you.

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  • _Molotov_Cocktail_

    Comrade Lenin. Why don't I see him on the list??!
    *strokes molotov cocktail menacingly

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  • IDiGAFi

    Castro.

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  • loopoo

    'I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king'

    Elizabeth I.

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  • Who_Fan4Life

    Define ''greatest.''

    Greatest at what? Military pursuits? If so I'd take Alexander the Great, or Hitler.

    Greatest spiritual/civil rights leader? Perhaps that would be Ghandi, or even MLK Jr.

    With that being said, I chose Odysseus. That's a badass name.

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  • anti-hero

    Which Caesar are you talking about? Caesar is a title, not a person's name. Such as Nero Caesar, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Little Caesar...

    Think of it like saying king: King Edward, King George, King Henry. But after the name instead of in front.

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  • bemah

    Hitler because he was powerful, a great leader. But he was definitely not right. If this poll was based on what they did with the power they had, rather than their influence on people, then i would have chosen someone else.

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  • I like talented dictators, they always take countries in decline (mongolia, germany after WWI) and turn them into empires. It's amazing, rivers of blood, but still amazing.

    of all time -Genghis Khan, but I voted for Hitler, because he managed to set a a broken, pride-less and starving country on a path of a world wide conquest in less than 10 years.

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  • InvadingPotatoLeader

    Emperor Wu of Han.
    But I doubt a lot of people on this site know him.

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    • robbieforgotpw

      Emperor poo was more successful

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    • He certainly, was the best of Han dynasty and if we're talking territorial expansion here.

      However, of all the Chinese emperors I favor Kangxi.

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  • IrishPotato

    Why is there no Gandalf enlisted here?

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  • balar

    Edward of Woodstock.

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  • Martin Luther coon jr is that right i can't remember names as well did Hitler pump acid into peoples vains or not or was i told wrong and did he make them take acid showers

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  • PurpleMelon

    Other- Hannibal.

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  • loobylou

    OBAMA IS THE GREATEST RULER OF ALL TIME!!!

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    • robbieforgotpw

      He's really good at dividing the people

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    • loobylou

      And this is a scottish gal saying that so it must be true!

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      • gold1234

        loobylou, your one of those cool aide drinkers aren't you. It's not the Chicago Thug I worry about. Pieces of sh-t like him are a dime a dozen. I worry about the f-g idiots like you that were fooled to vote for him. And if your not an American citizen then go back to Ireland so you can f-up that shit hole.

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