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Many people often think about who was the one president who really did our country justice. Who was the one president who, out of all forty-two, beats everyone and takes the gold for best president in the history of American presidents? Not everyone who agrees with these thoughts is going to agree with the answer each other gives. However, I bet many of those same people would argue that George Washington was the best president out of all of them. There are many more reasons to why George Washington is the best president to ever come into office, one being the fact that without him, we would not have won the Revolutionary war.
His amazing leadership skills kept the forces together and when the continental congress didn’t pay the troops, he did. After the war, many people suggested he become a king, he would have none of that. In fact, by George Washington refusing to become a king, King George III said, “If that is true then he will be the greatest man in the world”. This is not only a smart choice on his part to not be a king, but I also think it’s very noble of him. I could probably guess that all most every person would die to be known by everyone as a king or queen.
However, George Washington was smart enough and new that it would only hurt the country that he just so greatly helped. Another great feature of George Washington’s contribution is when the articles of confederation were failing. The country was about to fall apart and he lead the congress to work together to develop the constitution, and many believe that without his presence and his history of compromise, the constitutional congress may have fallen apart.
After the constitution was developed, his leadership was considered so important in fact, that he was strongly encouraged to be president almost by everyone. Not only was he the only president that was unanimously elected by the Electoral College but he is also the only president that didn’t actually want the job. He, however, reluctantly accepted the presidency because he felt it was his duty and job to serve because he knew that the country was fragile. If I could go back in time, I would personally thanks Mr.
Washington for being so very noble, caring, smart, and for starting our country out on the right foot. One of the most obvious, and in my opinion, most important factors to Why George Washington is the greatest president of all time, is the fact that he was the very first president ever. With John Adams at his side, George Washington started the country on its way to become the great and wonderful country that we call home today. George Washington is perhaps the single president who can truly call himself a “founding father” of the United States of America.
Many people would’ve have looked at the situation and thought that it wasn’t their place to correct a whole country, or much less to lead the country to greatness. It takes great courage to lead an entire country, without anyone to look back on for experience advice or mistakes that have been made. I, myself, couldn’t or wouldn’t have even thought about doing that, I would’ve let someone like George Washington step up to the plate. George Washington also proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in all international conflicts.
In my opinion, that’s a very important contribution to the success of the United States in the years to come. Not only did it help keep the United States safe from conflicts with other nations, but it also let every nation know that we aren’t here to make conflicts with them either. I believe, without that judgment on George Washington’s part, it necessarily wouldn’t have taken anyone else so quick to understand that what’s what we needed in order to stay out of major conflicts between other nations that occurred later in history.
There are plenty of facts to why George Washington is by far the greatest president to come along in the long chain of presidents to date. However, there will be discrepancies, but I’m sticking to what I know, and that’s that the country wouldn’t be as great as it is now without George Washington’s contributions. Not to mention, George Washington’s birthday is one day after mine, however, he was born 259 years before me, and to this day, I thank him for all of his work.