Editing Classical liberalism (section)

== Notable thinkers ==
{{see also|List of liberal theorists}}
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* [[Thomas Hobbes]]<ref>Lucien Jaume, "Hobbes and the Philosophical Sources of Liberalism", ''The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes' Leviathan'', 211</ref> (1588–1679)
* [[James Harrington (author)|James Harrington]] (1611–1677)
* [[John Locke]] (1632–1704)
* [[Montesquieu]] (1689–1755)
* [[David Hume]] (1711–1776)
* [[Voltaire]] (1694–1778)	
* [[Benjamin Franklin]] (1706–1790)
* [[Adam Smith]] (1723–1790)
* [[Edmund Burke]] (1729–1797)
* [[Edward Gibbon]] (1737–1794)
* [[Immanuel Kant]] (1724–1804)
* [[Anders Chydenius]] (1729–1803)
* [[Thomas Paine]] (1737–1809)
* [[Cesare Beccaria]] (1738–1794)
* [[Marquis de Condorcet]] (1743–1794)
* [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1743–1826)
* [[Jeremy Bentham]] (1748–1832)
* [[Gaetano Filangieri]] (1753–1788)
* [[Benjamin Constant]] (1767–1830)
* [[David Ricardo]] (1772–1823)
* [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] (1805–1859)
* [[Giuseppe Mazzini]] (1805–1872)<ref>{{cite book |editor=Bertrand Badie |editor2=Dirk Berg-Schlosser |editor3=Leonardo Morlino |title=International Encyclopedia of Political Science |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn2iCQAAQBAJ&dq=classical+liberal+Giuseppe+Mazzini&pg=PT1811 |quote= ... thought of classical liberal figures such as John Locke, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, and John Stuart Mill. ...|date=2011 |page=44 |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing|Sage]] |isbn=978-1483305394}}</ref>
* [[John Stuart Mill]] (1806–1872)
* [[William Ewart Gladstone]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Liberalism rediscovered |url=http://www.economist.com/node/112302 |date=5 February 1998 |access-date=28 June 2017 |magazine=[[The Economist]]}}</ref> (1809–1898)
* [[Horace Greeley]] (1811–1873)
* [[Fukuzawa Yukichi]]<ref>{{cite book |author=James Mark Shields |date=2017 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ce10DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA160 |title=Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=169 |isbn=9780190664008}}</ref> (1835–1901)
* [[Henry George]] (1839–1897)
* [[Friedrich Naumann]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert Leeson |date=2018 |title=Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part XI: Orwellian Rectifiers, Mises' 'Evil Seed' of Christianity and the 'Free' Market Welfare State ''Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics'' |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |page=468 |quote=Friedrich Naumann was regarded as a classical liberal while also promoting [[National-Social Association|National Socialism]] |isbn=9783319774282}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=P. G. C. van Schie |author2=Gerrit Voermann |date=2006 |title=The Dividing Line Between Success and Failure: A Comparison of Liberalism in the Netherlands and Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries |publisher=LIT Verlag Münsters |page=64 |quote=By the turn of the century, the left liberals Friedrich Naumann and Barth sought to redefine classical liberalism for the needs of the rising industrial society.}}</ref> (1860–1919)
* [[Ludwig Von Mises]] (1881–1973)
* [[Friedrich Hayek]] (1899–1992)
* [[Karl Popper]]<ref>{{cite book |date=2015 |title=After the Soviet Empire: Legacies and Pathways |publisher=BRILL |page=143 |quote=They had all forgotten that the classical liberal Karl Popper was definitely opposed to the big bang of rapid changes in whole societal systems. He assumed that changes of this type were bound to cause massive human suffering. |isbn=9789004291454}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Walter B. Weimer |date=2022 |title=Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume II: Basics of a Liberal Psychological, Social and Moral Order |publisher=[[Springer Nature]] |page=255 |isbn=9783030954772}}</ref><ref name="Popper">{{cite book |author=Christian Delacampagne |date=2022 |title=A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century |publisher=[[JHU Press]] |page=255 |quote=Among these figures one finds two defenders of the classical liberal tradition, Karl Popper and Raymond Aron; ... |isbn=9780801868146}}</ref> (1902–1994)
* [[Raymond Aron]]<ref name="Popper"/> (1905–1983)
* [[Milton Friedman]] (1912–2006)
* [[Robert Nozick]]<ref>{{cite book |author=John Gray |date=2018 |title=Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415563758}}</ref> (1938–2002)
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