In my view, the best 3 American Presidents were

• Thomas Jefferson. The Author of the declaration of independence. Took over the Presidency when the opposition were restricting freedom of the press. On winning his bitterly contested election, Jefferson restored press freedoms. Thomas Jefferson also introduced bills in Virginia for Religious Freedom at a time when religious freedoms were rare.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

- Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln strove to keep the American Union together. In doing so he was able to also defeat the pro slavery movement. Abraham Lincoln expressed some of the most memorable words for the dignity of human aspiration. Lincoln Quotes

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "

- Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington. Father of the Nation. George Washington was an undoubted patriot who helped oversee the birth of a new nation. George Washington Quotes

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