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If you could have have dinner with any person, who would it be? In other words what figure do you most admire, contemporary or historical.

For me it would be Winston Churchill. One of the last great men.



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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...Because it is the quality that guarantees all others"

"If we go on waiting upon events, how much shall we throw away our resources now available for our security"

Winston S. Churchill
 
It would be Henry Clay who basically fought the first liberal democrat, Andrew Jackson. Abe Lincoln formulated many of his thoughts on the presidency from Clay's writings.

SG


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The people's good is the highest law -- Cicero
 
I've long thought that a dinner party with Winston Churchill, Abe Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Robert Heinlein would be blessed with some of the most sparkling and witty conversational repartee known to man...

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"..but never ever Fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and Bullets."
10mm: It's not the size of the Dawg in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog!
 
Tough choice. Too many good candidates.
Here are some that haven't been suggested, yet:
Jefferson.
Patrick Henry.
Washington.
R. E. Lee.
Longstreet.
Chamberlain (Joshua, not Neville).
Franklin.
 
Georgie Patton or Elmer Keith. Either one would make for a most interesting dinner guest.

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Just one of the Good Guys
 
Teddy Roosevelt. I'd try to convince him to run again. BTW. Winston Churchill was responsible for many of the gun laws that had the English disarmed prior to WW-2. He's no hero in my book.
Paul B.
 
Interesting question.

This will be a surprise for those who know me, but I immediately thought of Jesus Christ as well.

Over a long enough dinner, we could wrap up a lot of my questions.

Live and let live. Regards from AZ
 
You have really are making me think. Painful Hummmm. :confused:

Since prayer gives us a hot line to Christ, I can pick another.


Ah Hah. I know! Noah, can you imagine all that he saw and went through?! Living in a totally different world/climate with all the dinosaurs, people hundreds and hundreds of years old, etc. And then having to build an ark never before even envisioned and it taking a hundred years to build. Now that's a long term project! And then, the first rain and all that went with it and after. Whew, he saw and went through a whole lot! Yep, Noah.
 
I saw the first couple who came to my mind (Jesus, Patrick Henry), so that would leave me with the other guys running right on their heels.

I'd like a table for four with Messirs Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Sam Adams.

The first two so I could pick their brains about what they REALLY meant with those Declaration and Constitution thing, and the last because he (along with Henry and Thomas Paine) was largely to blame for starting the Revolution.

But if I had to pick just one, it would be Jesus.
 
Since I am confident that I will sit at the right hand of Jesus and eat banana pudding some day, I'll choose a worldly person.

It would be difficult, so I'll have to name a few whom I would be forever changed over the opportunity to have dinner.

1. Ronald Reagan (better days of course)
2. John Wayne
3. Abe Lincoln
4. Cuck Yeager
5. Barbara Bush (I Know some of you are laughing, but I have always idolized any Grandma who breaks her leg snow sledding with her Grandkids, then says she'd do it again just for the time with the kids! We need more lots more just like her)


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"Government is not the solution to the problem, Government is the problem!"--Ronald Reagan
 
Would be a hard choice... first would have to be Jesus... for a good laugh I would have to go with Will Rogers. Imagine all the fun he could have had with Clinton.



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
Sir Isaac Newton.
I mean, C'mon! He picked up a book on algebra. When he came upon a geometric figure that he couldn't understand, he picked up a book on geometry. Two years later, he INVENTED integral calculus.

GAD! I AM SUCH A GEEK!!!!

Besides, did you know that Newton was a virgin 'till the day he died?

Perhaps Constantin' Huygens.

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Going Nowhere? Join Me There! Enjoy your stay!
 
so many people. All of you have brought up great people, and makes me think. Funny though, I noticed there are no women on the lists. Margret Thatcher would be the only one, but I don't know how polite the converstaiton would be.
Grant
Martin Luther King
Ghandi
Neil Armstrong
Robert Heinlein
Mark Twain
Lincon
Issac Assimov
FDR
And for kicks just to find out why and what happened
Jack Ruby
Lee harvey oswald
Surhan surhan
John Wilks Booth
 
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