Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #9: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American founding father, the third President of the United States, and one of history's strongest champions for liberty. Jefferson was a strong supporter of the separation of church and state and was the author of the influential Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. His greatest accomplishment, however, was the Declaration of Independence, which he principally authored. The Declaration of Independence, along with the United States Constitution, are the most advanced and progressive political documents of world history. The Declaration was largely based on the natural rights theory of John Locke. But Locke's ideas would have remained only theory without the American founders, including Jefferson, who courageously brought the ideas of Locke and other Enlightenment thinkers out of books and into practice. The Declaration and the nation it helped create have changed most of the world forever, providing people everywhere, now and in the future, with a vision proper to humanity: a vision of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Go to #10: Hippocrates Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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