Important People
This collection of short biographies highlights the lives and thought of central characters in the history of freedom.
- Pericles c. 495-429 B.C.
- Socrates c. 470-399 B.C.
- Plato c. 428-347 B.C.
- Aristotle 384-322 B.C.
- Constantine I c. 275-337
- Stephen Langton c. 1150-1228
- John Locke 1632-1704
- George Washington 1732-1799
- Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
- William Wilberforce 1759-1833
- Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
- Fredrick Douglas 1818-1895
- Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 1834-1902
For more information on the lives of key contributors to freedom and liberty, please visit "A History of Liberty".