It's a lot easier to pick the worst one.  I'll nominate the Gerber Mk Is & IIs I bought when I first graduated the Q Course. (I never needed them for their design purpose and they sucked at everything else!)
As several others have noted: the best ones were "the one I had on me when I needed it". (Usually something along the lines of a Demo Knife and a K-Bar when I was in the field.) I've since acquired better examples of the respective types but they still set the baseline. BTW - That's TWO best knives; it took both to cover the range of required uses. HTH
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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