A better civil government in the sense of more:
- careful
- cheerful
- creative
- democratic
- energetic
- enterprising
- equal
- esthetic
- free
- in harmony
- just
- peaceful
- prosperous
- respectful
- responsible  

The heartwarming worldleader - 'The Political Hero' - throughout a centrury:

               	1905 - 1910 Bertha von Suttner 

               	1910 – 1913 Sun Yat Sen

               	1913 – 1914 Jean Jaurès

               	1914 – 1918 Rosa Luxemburg

               	1918 – 1919 Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

               	1919 – 1924 Woodrow Wilson

               	1924 – 1933 Mohandas Gandhi

               	1933 – 1940 Franklin Delano Roosevelt

               	1940 – 1942 Winston Churchill

               	1942 – 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

               	1945 – 1947 Clement Attlee

               	1947 – 1948 Eleanor Roosevelt 

               	1948 – 1952 George Marshall

               	1952 – 1956 Jawaharlal Nehru 

               	1956 – 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld

               	1961 – 1963 Pope John XXIII

               	1963 – 1968 Martin Luther King

               	1968 - 1970 Thich Nhat Hanh

	1970 – 1974 Willy Brandt

               	1974 – 1980 Olof Palme

               	1980 – 1986 Lech Walesa

               	1986 – 1987 Václav Havel

               	1987 – 1990 Gro Harlem Brundlandt

	1990 – today Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 

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For years I am doing – as a hobby – research to find similarities, parallels and differences in the backgrounds, ideas and inspirations of important democratic leaders to find their ‘secrets’ and so the secret(s) of democratic leadership.

Koert Vrijhof, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands