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Understanding John Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration
A look at A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), written by John Locke,...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
What is the philosophy of liberalism?
Questions and answers about liberalism.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

John Locke
The philosopher John Locke, oil on canvas by Herman Verelst, 1689; in the National...
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock.com
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes, detail of an oil painting by John Michael Wright; in the National...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Adams
John Adams, oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1800–15; in the National Gallery...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; gift of Mrs. Robert Homans, 1954.7.1
Asher B. Durand: portrait of James Madison
James Madison, detail of an oil painting by Asher B. Durand, 1833; in the collection...
Collection of The New-York Historical Society
Adam Smith
Adam Smith, paste medallion by James Tassie, 1787; in the Scottish National...
Courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill, 1884.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Neg. Co. LC-USZ62-76491)
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone.
Culver Pictures
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3c17121)
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1969.
Yoichi R. Okamoto, The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum/National Archives and Records Administration
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
© Karsh—Rapho/Photo Researchers
F.A. Hayek
F.A. Hayek, 1950.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
civil rights movement
Walter Gadsden, a 15-year-old civil rights demonstrator, being attacked by police...
Bill Hudson/AP Images