Oops, only at the beginning of that war were airplanes unmarked and somehow I did that combat glitch.
My late Dad's cousin and best friend flew a P-51, shot down three Italian planes, got nailed by a Messerschmidt and his plane was last seen falling into the Mediterranean.
My Dad tried to join after Pearl Harbor but the government wanted him to use his engineering skills for converting a company that make swing sets and tricycles into producing parts for Corsair fighters.

Both Teddy and FDR were extreme Progressives added to our malaise with FDR's programs only succeeding in prolonging the Great Depression and putting us on this trajectory to the "1984" Brave New World we are facing today.....Roosevelt would be a great counterpoint to the cast of truly great thinkers!

Good choices! Jesus serves to add a bit of balance to Objectivism....

Let me know when your novel comes out on Kindle.

Good list, but I must confess that I had to look a few of them up. I read a little science fiction but not a lot. Seeing Enio Morricone on your list, makes me want to ask if you like Bix Beiderbecke?

she's invited, too, sir! -- j

p.s. mine likes amaretto on the rocks!
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Perhaps Barney partakes too much of the grape.

I like your list. Having Jesus in a discussion group with Ayn Rand would be interesting to say the least. I should have thought of Margaret Thatcher and Thomas Sole. I also would like to see Walter E. Williams added

Lennon was a thinker, though wrong. Would be interesting to see him and Hoffer and Friedman at the same table........

I was a Big Steve Allen fan and I remember those shows well. You could never put on a program like that today. No explosions.

You're going to get me in trouble with the BW.

I had an aviator friend whoe grandfather was a WW1 pilot. He told me two amusing stories. They tried to mount macine guns over the engines of the planes but they kept shooting up the propellers until they learned how to time them. In WW2, he was too old to be a front line pilot, but he was sent to Belgium in 1940, I guess to help them form an air force. To his surprise, they only had two planes. He asked them to perform a basic flight formation whereupon they took off and flew into one another.

Frederic Bastiat- The Law. It is one of my favorite short reads. http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

There was a TV show hosted by Steve Allen called Meeting of Minds (1977–1981) that addressed this discussion topic. At each episode, Allen had actors portraying various characters of history as realistically as possible, in a round-table discussion. Actual examples: Queen Cleopatra / Theodore Roosevelt / Thomas Aquinas / Thomas Paine on a two-part episode, Emily Dickinson / Attila the Hun / Charles Darwin / Galileo on another, and Florence Nightingale / Plato / Martin Luther / Voltaire on yet another. The shows were always superb.

I'll bring the Dewar's and some cheese plus crackers! -- j
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I'll bring the wine.

Jefferson, Madison and Franklin would keep me going for quite a while. Aristotle would be next. Not familiar with Bastiat.

Remember to pronounce Socrates as So Crates.

Hello Herb7734
After #1 :) Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Paine, Bastiat, Hazlitt, Friedman. That would make ten. Eleven including Rand as #1.
Including myself a dozen; that would make a very busy and enlightening party for me. I would not be so bold as to offer an opinion, but would overflow with questions.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Robert Heinlein would be in there! . and
there's this guy named Herb ... ! -- j
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I'm fascinated with World War One overall and of the air http://combat.in particular.
I'm currently working on a novel called "Chasing Little Red" about boche horsemen chasing a prized hostage for a French general's daughter (she's an expert rider with a photographic memory and a lunatic horse) about the Belgian countryside. Well, I;m a wannabe novelist trying to write it.
Yes, a few airplanes are in it All are unmarked with both sides shooting at any aircraft in the sky. That last bit's a historical fact.

You're having a party and you invite ten of your favorite people of all time.

That's someone I would never have thought of.

I always admire the inclusion of George Washington. He'd become a cliché and as a result has been avoided, but is coming back strong. Personally, I don't think a better man ever walked the planet.