A

Thomas a Kempis
(1380-1471) 		John Abbott (1821-1893) John, Lord Acton (1834-1902)
Henry Brooks Adams
(1838-1915)
Douglas Adams (1952-) Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
Felix Adler (1851-1933) John Agard (1949-) Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
Marian Anderson (1897-1993) Anon. Thomas Aquinas (1244-1274)
Corazon Aquino (1933-) Oscar Arias (1941-) Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Augustine (354-430) Tim Ault Aung San Suu Kyi Daw (1945-)

B

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Joan Baez (1941-) Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
Honore, de Balzac (1799-1850) John Kendrick Bangs Dave Barry
King Baudouin I (1930-1993) Romare Howard Bearden (1914-1988) Menachem Begin (1913-1992)
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Henri Bergson (1859-1941) Georges Bernanos (1888-1948)
Daniel Berrigan (1921-) Bhagavad Gita (c B C 400) Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914 (?))
Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) William Blake (1757-1827)
Elise Bolding Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
Georges Brassens (1921-1981) Aristide Briand (1862-1932) Herb Brody
Robert Browning (1812-1889) Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) William Cullen Bryant (1764-1878)
John Buchan (1875-1940) Pearl Buck (1892-1973) Napoleon Buonaparte (1769-1821)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Robert Burton (1577-1640)

C

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1617) Francois de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Philip Dormer Chesterfield (1694-1773) Gilbert K Chesterton (1874-1936)
Joan Chittister, OSB Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B C )
Gregory Clark Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) Bill Clinton (1946-)
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924-) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) Confucius (551-479 B C ) James Connolly (1870-1916)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) William Cowper (1731-1800.) John Philpot Curran (1750-1814)
George William Curtis (1824-1892)

D

Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) Aubrey T. de Vere Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
John Dewey (1859-1952) Thomas Dibdin (1771-1841) Paul Dickson
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) James Douglass
John Dryden (1631-1700) Francis Duffy (1871-1932) John Foster Dulles (1888-1959)
Jack DuVall G Dyer

E

Amelia Earhart (1898-1937 (?)) Meister Eckhart (1260-1329) Marian W Edelman (1939-)
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894) Desmond Egan (1936-) Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) Paul Eldridge (1888-1982) George Eliot (1819-1880)
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Epictetus (c AD 50) Desiderius Erasmus Louise Erdrich (1954-)
Euripides (480-406 BC)

F

Ann Fairbairn Austin Farrar William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) John A. Fisher (1841-1920) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) Gerald R. Ford (1913-) Henry Emerson Fosdick (1879-1969)
John Fowles, (1926-) Anatole France (1844-1924) Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Viktor Frankl (1905-) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Robert Fulghum (1937-) Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

G

Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) Siddhartha Gautama (c 560-480 B C )
Levi Gershon, Ben (Gersonides)(1288-1344) Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Andre Gide (1869-1951)
Fra Giovanni Giolondo (1433-1515) Bob Goddard (1893-1946) Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945)
Hermann Goering (1832-1946) Johann Wolfgang Goethe, von (1749-1832) Daniel Goleman
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-) Lawrence Gould Katharine Graham (1917-)
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940) Gerhard Groote (1340-1384)

H

Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961) Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) L.P. Hartley (1895-1972)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Ben Hecht (1894-1964) Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) Ammon Hennacy (1893-1976)
Heraclitus (c. 540-470 BCE) Frank Herbert (1920-1986) Herodotus (c. 485-425 BCE)
Herman Hesse (1877-1962) Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) Horace (65-8 BC)
A. E Housman (1859-1936) Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Tzu-ch'eng Hung (1593-1665)
Raymond C. Hunthausen Mike Huybensz

I

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) William R. Inge (1860-1954) Isaiah (742-700 B C)

J

William James (1842-1910) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Josh Jenkins
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) Hiram Johnson (1866-1945) Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973)
Mordecai W. Johnson (1890-1976) Samuel Johnson (1696-1772) Chief Joseph (1840-1904)
James Joyce (1882-1941) Benito Juarez (1806-1872) Justinian (482-565)
Juvenal (c.60-130)

K

John Kasich (1952-) Helen Keller (1880-1968) John F Kennedy (1917-1963)
Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958) Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Matsuo Kinsaku (1644-1694) Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-)

L

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) Francois La Rochefoucauld, Duc de (1613-1680) Gene R. LaRocque
Andrew B. Law ) Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-) Louis Lecoin
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) John Lennon (1940-1980) Max Lerner (1902-1992)
William Mather Lewis C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Abraham Lincoln William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) John Locke (1632-1704)
Martin Luther (1483-1546) Robert Lynd (1879-1949)

M

James Madison (1751-1836) Nelson Mandela (1918-) Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Tse-tung Mao (1893-1976) Judith Martin (1938-) Harry Martinson (1904-1978)
Karl Marx (1818-1883) Juan Mascaro Charles H. Maskins
Gordon Mason Gene Mauch Eugene McCarthy (1916-)
Fr Daniel McDyer Roger McGough (1937-) George McGovern (1922-)
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Mechtild George Melton
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) Thomas Merton (1915-1968) John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
John Milton (1608-1674) Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592.) Hannah More (1745-1833)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1907-) W. H. Murphy W.H. Murray
A.J. Muste

N

Fridjof Nansen (1861-1930) Jose Narosky George Jean Nathan (1882-1958)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
Grant Niemann Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
Henri Nouwen Ronald M. Novinson. Julius K. Nyerere (1922-)

O

Kane O'Hara (---- -1782) Austin O'Malley P.J. O'Rourke
George Orwell (1903-1950) James Otis (1725-1783) Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)

P

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) William Paley (1743-1805) Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Alan Paton (1903-1988) George S. Patton (1885-1945) Paul VI (1897-1978)
Peacemaker (c. 1000AD) Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972) William Penn (1644-1718)
Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) Petrarch (1304-1374) Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
Robert M. Pirsig (1928-) Pius VI (1717-1799) Plato (428-348 BCE)
Plutarch (AD c 46-c 120) Alexander Pope. (1688-1844) Karl Raimund Popper (1902 -)
Terry Pratchett (1948-) George Dennison Prentice Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
Pythagoras (582-507 B C )

R

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973) Anatol Rapoport
James Reston (1909-) Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) John G. Riefenbaker
Jacob Riis (1849-1914) Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Will Rogers (1879-1935) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Michael Rosen (1946-) Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Dagobert D. Runes Dean Rusk (1909-)

S

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Aksel Sandemose George Santayana (1863-1952)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Johann Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) Carl Schurz (1829-1906)
Louis Scutenaire Neil J. Seatlee Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the younger (c. 104-65 BCE)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
Sydney Smith. (1769-1845.) Jon Sobrino Sophocles 497-406 B C)
Robert Southey (1774-1843) Jared Sparks (1789-1866) Francis Spellman (1889-1967)
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) Germaine de Stael (1766 - 1817 ) Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Tom Stoppard (1937-) Sun Tzu (c 400 B C )
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Publilius Syrus (1st C. BC) Thomas Szasz (1920-?)

T

Tacitus (55?-120?) Edward Teller (1908-) Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Mother Teresa (1910-) Thales (640 - 546 B.C.) U Thant (1909-1974)
Ronald Thomas Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Thucydides (c.460-c.400 BC)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Mark Twain (1835-1910)

U

Stewart Udall (1920-?) UNESCO Constitution (1945-1946) Morihei Uyeshiba (1883-1969)

V

Thomas Vian Frederick Moore Vinson (1890-1953) Voltaire (1694-1778)
Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) Johann von Schiller (1759-1805)

W

Alice Walker (1944-) Jim Wall Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
George Washington (1732-1799) Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Simone Weil (1909-1943)
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) Rebecca West (1892-1983) William Allen White (1868-1944)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Elie Wiesel (1928-) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Wendell Willkie (1892-1944 ) Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

Z

Israel Zangwill (1864-1926)