Jim Powell

Mary Wollstonecraft was an outspoken advocate for equal rights for men and women and individualism.

Locke’s ideas on rights, property, and the proper role of government influenced the American and French Revolutions.po

The famous Roman statesman advocated the principles that became the bedrock of liberty in the modern world.

Erasmus, a great Renaissance scholar, was a champion of peace and religious toleration.

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became a prominent abolitionist and advocate of women’s rights.

A hero of the American Revolution, Lafayette was also a champion of liberty in his native France.

Ludwig von Mises founded the modern Austrian School of economics, and wrote the sweeping, authoritative treatise Human Action.