Cicero: enemy of the state, friend of liberty

Cato the Younger: ambition in the service of principle

Augustine: searching for truth and wisdom

Anne Hutchinson: the spirit of religious liberty

Adam Smith: ideas change the world

Mercy Otis Warren: conscience of great causes

Edmund Burke: eloquence and conviction

Thomas Clarkson: a moral steam engine that never quit

Frédéric Bastiat: liberty's masterful storyteller

Prudence Crandall: in defiance of racism

Harriet Tubman: she never lost a passenger

Black entrepreneurs: models too often forgotten

Martha Coston, Hetty Green, and Madam C.J. Walker: female pioneers in American business

William Ewart Gladstone: a decades-long defense of liberty

George Eastman: genius of invention and enterprise

Fanny Crosby: blind but not disabled

Siegfried Sassoon: conscience on and off the battlefield

Andrew Mellon: unleashing wealth creators

J. Gresham Machen: god's forgotten libertarian

Marie Curie: trailblazing scientist

Prohibition's foes: still teaching lessons today

Four justices: liberty's saving hands

Katharine Atholl: a modern-day Cassandra

Jesse Owens: "character makes the difference when it's close"

Nicholas Winton: the humblest hero

Witold Pilecki: bravery beyond measure

Anne Frank: gratitude in adversity

Althea Gibson: a winning attitude

Ludwig Erhard: architect of a miracle

Gail Halvorsen: the candy bomber

Joe Louis: fighter on many fronts

Peter Fechter: death at the wall

Norval Morey: wealth creation through entrepreneurship

Jerzy Popieluszko: witness to truth and freedom

Roberto Clemente: "I learned the right way to live"

John Patric: hobo, screwball, and hero

Haing S. Ngor: "to give of your soul"

Vivien Kellems: "please indict me!"

Homeschoolers: it's for the children!

Larry Cooper: never too late for character

Epilogue.