Who are the greatest expounders and defenders of liberty?

[Galileo Galilei]

Socrates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates

Jesus of Nazareth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus

Origen; the Man of Steel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen

John Locke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke

Voltaire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire

Adam Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith

Patrick Henry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Henry

Thomas Paine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine

Thomas Jefferson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

George Washington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington

James Madison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison

Grover Cleveland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland

Friedrich Hayek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

Ayn Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

Ron Paul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul

Paul Craig Roberts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts

Thomas DiLorenzo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_DiLorenzo

Thomas Woods
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Woods

Lew Rockwell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Rockwell

Alex Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(radio)

 

[Gaius1981]

John Locke, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Madison, George Washington and Ayn Rand, have most likely made the greatest impact.

Honorable mention to my favorite President though -- Grover Cleveland.

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Quit being a primitive European.

Liberty for the sake of liberty is no better than no liberty whatsoever.

 

[Kludge]

John Stossel.

 

[BuddyRey]

Great poll, but it's missing Frederic Bastiat, Lysander Spooner, Murray Rothbard, Mary Ruwart, and Ian Freeman!

 

[Kludge]

Great poll, but it's missing Frederic Bastiat, Lysander Spooner, Murray Rothbard, Mary Ruwart, and Ian Freeman!

... And John Stossel.

 

[Young Paleocon]

Why is Smith on there?

 

[Galileo Galilei]

Why is Smith on there?

He wrote the single most influential book in the history on economics, which desroyed the notion of mercantile economics and promoted the free market.

 

[Truth Warrior]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/columnists.html

 

[Zolah]

I'd kinda like to have seen Adam Kokesh on the list, either way I voted for Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson and Ron Paul.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

Note - I didn't put Galileo on the list, because I didn't think it was fair to vote for myself.



In my opinion, Galileo is the greatest and most influential defender of liberty.

Galileo Galilei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

I know we have a James Madison who roams these parts, has he voted yet?

 

[Gaius1981]

I'd kinda like to have seen Adam Kokesh on the list, either way I voted for Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson and Ron Paul.

Somehow, putting Kokesh on the same list as Thomas Jefferson and Ayn Rand, seems very wrong. That angry young man has ways to go before he can be measured by those standards.

 

[Xenophage]

Where's Captain America? Where's Superman? WHAT THE HELL KIND OF POLL IS THIS?

 

[Young Paleocon]

Why isn't Bastiat, Say, von Mises, or Rothbard on here?

 

[Xenophage]

Why isn't Bastiat, Say, von Mises, or Rothbard on here?

Or mothafuckin' Thor! He's getting a movie soon.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

Why isn't Bastiat, Say, von Mises, or Rothbard on here?

I didn't put Bastiat on because he is not very well known, although his book the Law is a top three Libertarian book in my opinion.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

So far, Ron Paul, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Woods are polling ahead of Jesus!

Christ almighty!!

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

So far, Ron Paul, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Woods are polling ahead of Jesus!

Christ almighty!!

TW noticed

From FB, this AM (Strange how it reformats...)

Tom Woods Yep, it's me, Jesus, Socrates, and a few others. (Couldn't resist posting this.)




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Who are the greatest expounders and defenders of liberty?

haha

 

[Xenophage]

Jesus is on this list?

I thought Goku killed him. Wtf.

 

[tremendoustie]

Liberty for the sake of liberty is no better than no liberty whatsoever.

I disagree. Morality is its own end. It is immoral to deprive another of liberty, therefore liberty is its own end.