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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 de Rebecque Calvin Coolidge James Fenimore Cooper George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-bowh) William Cowper Stephen Crane Crazy Horse Benedetto Croce Davy Crockett Oliver Cromwell John P. Curran George William Curtis Clarence S. Darrow Daniel Defoe Charles de Gaulle James Steuart Denham Voltairine de Cleyre Demonax Denis Diderot Everett McKinley Dirksen Samuel 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 John Kenneth Galbraith Albert Gallatin Mahatma Gandhi John W. Gardner Garet Garrett William Lloyd Garrison Henry George David Lloyd George Edward Gibbon Kahlil Gibran André Gide William Ewart Gladstone William Godwin Joseph 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 Hammarskjold Learned Hand Thomas Hardy F. A. Harper Arthur (“Bomber”) Harris George Harrison Vaclav Havel Ralph G. Hawtrey Friedrich A. Hayek Hanry 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 Dresden James Anthony de Jasay John Jay Thomas Jefferson Gerald W. Johnson Hiram Johnson Samuel Johnson Ernest Jones Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Bertrand de Jouvenel Julius Caesar Carl Gustav Jung Immanuel Kant Walter Karp Helen Keller John F. Kennedy John Maynard Keynes Nikita Khrushchev Martin Lither 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 Suzannne 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. Lindberg 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 Thomas Mann Mao Tse-Tung Juan de Mariana John Marshall 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 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. ORourke José Ortega y Gasset George Orwell Peter 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 Red Cloud (Makhpiya-luta) Thomas B. Reed Erich M. Remarque David Ricardo Condoleeza Rice Hyman G. Rickover David Rockefeller Will Rogers Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Clinton Rossiter Murray N. Rothbard Jean-Jacques Rousseau Rudolph J. Rummel Bertrand A. W. Russell Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery Carl Sandburg Chief Santana Jean-Paul Sartre Geroge 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 Summer William Graham Sumner Edgar A. Sutler 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 N. 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 W. Warren Mercy Otis Warren Geroge Washington Alan Watts Henry Grady Weaver Richard M. Weaver Daniel Webster Noah Webster H. G. Wells William C. Westmoreland E. B. White Walt Whitman Elie Wiesel Oscar Wilde Woodrow Wilson Fred Woodworth Emiliano Zapata Frank Zappa Howard Zinn
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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
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
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
