Timeline of Libertarian thinkers

Timeline of Libertarian thinkers

* Herbert Spencer (1800?-): Anarchist British parliamentarian. Advocated the "right of people to ignore the state." Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism]
* Auberon Herbert (1800?-): Anarchist British parliamentarian, founder of "voluntaryism" and anti-democrat. Advocated that the voting majority has no more right to decide a man's life than "either the bayonet-surrounded emperor or the infallible church."
* Lysander Spooner ():
* Josiah Warren (1798-): Inventor,social theorist, and believer in "individual sovereignty." Influenced John Stuart Mill. States "commit more crimes upon persons and property than all criminals put together."
* Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812-): Abolitionist who tried to sell Texas to Britain to prevent it becoming a slave state.
* Jean-Pierre Proudhon ():
* Adin Ballou (): American Christian anarchist.
* William Lloyd Garrison (): Abolitionist libertarian and journalist. Influenced Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and anti-slavery crusader.
* Henry David Thoreau (): Civil liberties dissident and writer. "This government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of the way."
* Benjamin Tucker ():

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