Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was
an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of
Independence and the third President of the United States.
George Washington
George Washington was the first President of the United States, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary.
Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which he was subsequently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution.
Voltaire
- was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established
Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom
of religion, freedom
of expression, and separation
of church and state.
- Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost
every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and
historical and scientific works.
- He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books
and pamphlets.
- He was an outspoken advocate, despite the risk this placed
him in under the strict censorship laws of the time.
- As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his
works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French
institutions of his day.
Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th-century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought.
Montesquieu
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.
Babeuf
François-Noël Babeuf, known as Gracchus Babeuf, was a French political agitator and journalist of the French Revolutionary period.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe.
Simón Bolívar
was a Venezuelan military and political leader.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini, nicknamed The Beating Heart of Italy, was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian general and politician. He is considered, with Camillo Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II and Giuseppe Mazzini, as one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland".
Cavour
Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, of Isolabella and of Leri, generally known as Cavour was a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification.
Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s to his dismissal in 1890 by Emperor Wilhelm II.
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx
was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and
revolutionary socialist.
