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A - F

Edward Abbey
Lord Acton
Abigail S. Adams
Henry B. Adams
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Samuel Adams
Joseph Addison
Spiro T. Agnew
Madeleine K. Albright
Richard E. G. Aldington
Dante Alighieri
Stephen E. Ambrose
Fisher Ames
Anacharsis
Thomas Aquinas
Hannah Arendt
Aristotle
Dominick T. Armentano
Richard Armour
Isaac Asimov
Augustine of Hippo
Francis Bacon
Joan Baez
Walter Bagehot
F. Lee Bailey
Mikhail Bakunin
Honore de Balzac
Stanley Baldwin
Harry Elmer Barnes
Dave Barry
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat
Peter T. Bauer
Charles A. Beard
Henry Ward Beecher
Hilaire Belloc
Saul Bellow
Bruce L. Benson
Jeremy Bentham
Alexander Berkman
Isaiah Berlin
Ambrose Bierce
Otto von Bismarck
Hugo L. Black
William Blackstone
William Blum
Napoleon Bonaparte
David G. Borenstein
Randolph S. Bourne
James Bovard
Charles Bradlaugh
Omar N. Bradley
Louis D. Brandeis
John Bright
Louis Bromfield
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Siddhartha Buddha
Howard H. Buffett
James Burgh
Edmund Burke
William S. Burroughs
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Samuel Butler
Smedley D. Butler
Robert C. Byrd
Lord Byron
J. Taylor Caldwell
John C. Calhoun
Albert Camus
Edwin Cannan
Benjamin Cardozo
Richard Carlile
Thomas Carlyle
Cato the Younger
Zechariah Chafee, Jr.
William Henry Chamberlin
John Jay Chapman
G. K. Chesterton
Frank Chodorov
Noam Chomsky
Winston L. S. Churchill
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
Henry Clay
Georges Clemenceau
Grover Cleveland
Bill Clinton
Frank I. Cobb
Richard Cobden
Henry Steele Commager
Auguste Comte
Charles Comte
H. Benjamin Constant
Calvin Coolidge
James Fenimore Cooper
George Copway
William Cowper
Stephen Crane
Crazy Horse
Benedetto Croce
Davy Crockett
Oliver Cromwell
John P. Curran
George William Curtis
Clarence S. Darrow
Daniel Defoe
Voltairine de Cleyre
Charles de Gaulle
Demonax
James Steuart Denham
Denis Diderot
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Sam Donaldson
John Dos Passos
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William O. Douglas
Frederick Douglass
Hugh Downs
Charles Dunoyer
John Dryden
Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Clint Eastwood
Thomas Alva Edison
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Eliot
Daniel Ellsberg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vassilis Epaminondou
Epictetus
Erasmus
William Faulkner
Adam Ferguson
W. C. Fields
John T. Flynn
Ferdinand Foch
Gerald R. Ford
Theodore J. Forstmann
Henry E. Fosdick
Felix Frankfurter
Benjamin Franklin
Frederick the Great
Sigmund Freud
Milton Friedman
Erich Fromm
Robert Frost
J. William Fulbright
Thomas Fuller

G - M

John Kenneth Galbraith
Albert Gallatin
Mahatma Gandhi
John W. Gardner
Garet Garrett
William Lloyd Garrison
Charles DeGaulle
Henry George
David Lloyd George
Edward Gibbon
Kahlil Gibran
André Gide
William Ewart Gladstone
William Godwin
Joseph P. Goebbels
Hermann Goering
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Emma Goldman
Barry M. Goldwater
Samuel Gompers
Mikhail Gorbachev
Thomas Gordon
Katherine Graham
Ulysses S. Grant
Germaine Greer
Angelica Grimke
Sarah Grimke
Erwin N. Griswold
Elgin Groseclose
Hugo Grotius
Doug Gwyn
Stephen P. Halbrook
Alexander Hamilton
Dag H. A. C. Hammarskjold
Learned Hand
Thomas Hardy
F. A. Harper
Arthur (“Bomber”) Harris
George Harrison
Vaclav Havel
Ralph G. Hawtrey
Friedrich A. Hayek
Henry Hazlitt
Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Heinrich Heine
Robert A. Heinlein
Ernest Hemingway
Patrick Henry
Auberon Herbert
George Herbert
Herodotus
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Robert Higgs
James J. Hill
Napoleon Hill
Heinrich Himmler
Adolph Hitler
Thomas Hobbes
Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hoffer
Herbert C. Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
Victor Hugo
Wilhelm von Humboldt
David Hume
Hubert H. Humphrey
Samuel P. Huntington
Aldous L. Huxley
Henrik Ibsen
William R. Inge
Robert G. Ingersoll
Andrew Jackson
Robert H. Jackson
“Stonewall” Jackson
Dresden James
Anthony de Jasay
John Jay
Thomas Jefferson
Gerald W. Johnson
Hiram Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Ernest Jones
Chief Joseph
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Julius Caesar
Carl Gustav Jung
Emmanuel Kant
Walter Karp
Helen Keller
John F. Kennedy
John Maynard Keynes
Nikita Khrushchev
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rudyard Kipling
Henry A. Kissinger
Frank H. Knight
Arthur Koestler
Gabriel Kolko
Charles Krauthammer
Peter A. Kropotkin
Etienne de La Boétie
Robert M. LaFollette
Suzanne Lafollette
Rose Wilder Lane
Edward Langley
John Lansing, Jr.
Lewis H. Lapham
Gene R. LaRocque
Doug Larson
Harold J. Laski
D. H. Lawrence
John le Carré
Ursula K. Le Guin
William D. Leahy
Richard Henry Lee
Robert E. Lee
Robert LeFevre
Vladimir I. Lenin
John Lennon
Bruno Leoni
C. S. Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
Benjamin Lichtenberg
Leonard P. Liggio
Abraham Lincoln
Charles A. Lindbergh
Walter Lippmann
John Locke
Henry Cabot Lodge
William Looney
James Russell Lowell
Harold Lowman
Lucanus
Rosa Luxenburg
Douglas MacArthur
Thomas B. Macaulay
George E. MacDonald
Nicolo Machiavelli
Robert M. MacIver
William Maclay
James Madison
Norman Mailer
Nestor I. Makhno
Errico Malatesta
Malcolm X (Little)
Thomas Mann
Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Ze-Dong)
John Marshall
Juan de Mariana
Thurgood Marshall
Everett Dean Martin
Harriet Martineau
Groucho Marx
Karl Marx
George Mason
W. Somerset Maugham
Guy de Maupassant
Jonathan Mayhew
Mary T. McCarthy
Neil A. McDonald
George S. McGovern
William McKinley
Alexander Meiklejohn
Henry L. Mencken
Thomas Merton
James Mill
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
Gustav de Molinari
James Monroe
Michel E. de Montaigne
Charles de Secondat de Montesquieu
Samuel Eliot Morison
Felix Morley
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Frank E. Murphy
Edward R. Murrow
Benito Mussolini
A. J. Muste

N - Z

George Jean Nathan
Martin Niemoller
Friedrich Nietzsche
Robert A. Nisbet
Richard M. Nixon
Albert Jay Nock
Charles Eliot Norton
Robert Nozick
J. Robert Oppenheimer
P. J. O’Rourke
José Ortega y Gasset
George Orwell
P. D. Ouspensky
Thomas Paine
Vilfredo Pareto
Albert Parsons
Blaise Pascal
Isabel Paterson
John Paul II
William Penn
José Marti y Perez
Pericles
Samuel B. Pettengill
Wendell Phillips
Richard Pipes
William Pitt
Plato
Plutarch
Arthur Ponsonby
Karl R. Popper
Joseph Priestley
Pierre J. Proudhon
Ayn Rand
Leonard E. Read
Ronald W. Reagan
Chief Red Cloud
Thomas B. Reed
Erich M. Remarque
David Ricardo
Condoleeza Rice
Hyman Rickover
David Rockefeller
Will Rogers
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Clinton Rossiter
Murray N. Rothbard
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rudolph Rummel
Bertrand Russell
Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery
Carl Sandburg
Chief Santana
George Santayana
Jean-Paul Sartre
George Savile
Jean-Baptiste Say
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Albert Schweitzer
Lucius Annaneus Seneca
George Bernard Shaw
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Tecumseh Sherman
Algernon Sidney
William E. Simon
Louis Simpson
Chief Sitting Bull
Adam Smith
Joseph Sobran
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Thomas Sowell
Herbert Spencer
Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza
Lysander Spooner
Chief Spotted Tail
Henry St. John
Germaine de Stael
Joseph Stalin
John Steinbeck
James Fitzjames Stephen
Potter Stewart
Max Stirner
I. F. Stone
Charles Sumner
William Graham Sumner
Edgar A. Suter
George O. Sutherland
Jonathan Swift
Thomas S. Szasz
Cornelius Tacitus
Roger B. Taney
A. J. P. Taylor
John Taylor
Chief Tecumseh
Edward Teller
Clarence Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
Thucydides
Charles Tilly
Alexis de Tocqueville
Leo N. Tolstoy
Lily Tomlin
Arnold Toynbee
John Trenchard
Leon Trotsky
Harry S Truman
Dalton Trumbo
Harriet Tubman
Benjamin R. Tucker
St. George Tucker
Barbara W. Tuchman
Mark Twain
John Tyler
Alexander Tytler
Sun Tzu
Martin van Buren
Vincent van Gogh
Arthur Vandenburg
Gore Vidal
Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
Voltaire
Ludwig von Mises
Friedrich von Schiller
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Nicolas Walter
Josiah Warren
Mercy Otis Warren
George Washington
Alan Watts
Henry Grady Weaver
Richard Weaver
Daniel Webster
Noah Webster
H. G. Wells
William Westmoreland
E. B. White
Walt Whitman
Elie Wiesel
Oscar Wilde
Woodrow Wilson
Fred Woodworth
Emiliano Zapata
Frank Zappa
Howard Zinn