Notable Thinkers

 

Notable Thinkers

 Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Conservatives believe the role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals. Conservative policies generally emphasize empowerment of the individual to solve problems.

 Liberals believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all. It is the duty of the government to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. Liberals believe that the role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need. Liberal policies generally emphasize the need for the government to solve problems.

 Libertarians are consistent advocates of free-market capitalism, minimal government, and social tolerance (thus distinguishing libertarians from conservatives). Their motto might be “Keep government out of the boardroom and the bedroom.”

Both modern liberals and conservatives can trace their early beginnings back to thinkers like Aristotle and Machiavelli, and thence to 17^th century thinker John Locke of England, and to 18^th century thinkers Adam Smith of Scotland, Edmund Burke of Ireland and Charles de Montesquieu of France.  Without overcomplicating, the path toward modern conservatism tracks though Aristotle, Machiavelli John Locke, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, John, John Quincy, Henry and Brooks Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, Alexis de Tocqueville, Auguste Comte, Benjamin Disraeli, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Mark Twain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Irving Babbitt, Martin Buber, Milton Friedman, Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Paul Elmer More, George Santayana, C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Warren Harding, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Russel Kirk, William H. Buckley, Whitaker Chambers, Phyllis Schlafly, Thomas Sowell, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, George Will, Victor Davis Hanson, Dinesh, D’Souza, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and many others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_conservatives

 Modern liberals track through John Locke, Adam Smith, Charles de Montesquieu. Erasmus, Thomas Hobbes, David Ricardo, Spinoza, Rousseau, Voltaire, Maximilien Robespierre, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, James and John Stuart Mill, to Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine.  More recent notables are Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Jean Paul Sartre, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. Hayek, Ayn Rand, Karl Popper, Noam Chomsky, John Maynard Keynes, William Jennings Bryan, Herbert Croly, John Dewey, Herbert Marcuse, Reinhold Niebuhr, Woodrow Wilson, John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, John, Robert and Ted Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, most of our present mainstream media and many others 

https://justawordfromtheleft.wordpress.com/modern-liberal-thinkers-and-leaders-in-the-united-states/

 Libertarians:

John Locke (1632–1704), William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), H. L. Mencken (1880–1956), Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). Friedrich Hayek, Ayn Rand (1905–1982), Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Thomas Sowell, John Stossel, Charles Koch, David Koch, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Steve Forbes, Steve Moore, Larry Elder, Clint Eastwood, Charles Murray, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Glenn Beck, P.J. O’Rourke, Niall Ferguson, Tom Selleck, Charlie Gasparino, Vince Vaughn 

https://www.newsmax.com/BestLists/libertarians-newsmax-freedomfest/2017/06/01/id/793510/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_libertarian_thinkers

 Ray Gruszecki

July 22, 2022