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Lord Acton
The History of Freedom
This is an excerpt from The History of Freedom, published by the Macmillan Company in 1907.
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John Adams
John Adams on Rights of Property
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Preserving America Library
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Robert Bork
The Tempting of America
This is an excerpt from The Tempting of America by Robert Bork, a book published by the Free Press in 1990.
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Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France
This is an excerpt from Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, originally written in 1790.
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Cicero
Cicero: Treatise on the Commonwealth
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Henry Clay
Defense of the American System
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Henry Clay
Henry Clay on the Seminole War
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Alan Dershowitz
The Scopes Trial
This is an excerpt from Alan Dershowitz's commentary on the Scopes Trial of 1925.
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass on Religion and Human Dignity
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Will Durant
Will Durant on the Decay of Civilization
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Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower on Bureaucratic Government
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Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt on Judges
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman on Capitalism and Freedom
This is an excerpt from Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, a book originally published by the University of Chicago Press in 1962.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev on Trade Restrictions
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Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton on the Nature of Rights
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Friedrich Hayek
The Road to Serfdom
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Rabbi Hirsch
Commentary on the Book of Genesis
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes on Punishments
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover on Liberty
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Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson on Wartime Civil Liberties
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson on Immigration
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Thomas Jefferson
Judicial Usurpations in Constitutional
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson on Islamic Terrorism
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Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol on Entitlement
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Francis Lieber
Francis Lieber on Self-Government
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln on Preservation
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Walter Lippmann
The Good Society
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Livy
History of Early Rome
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John Locke
John Locke on Legislative Power
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge on Independence
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James Madison
James Madison on Manufactures
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James Madison
James Madison on Inalienable Rights
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John Marshall
John Marshall on Legislation
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John McCain
Why Courage Matters
This is an excerpt from "Why Courage Matters" by Senator John McCain, a book published by Random House in 2004.
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James Monroe
James Monroe on Self-Rule
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Sandra Day OConnor
Sandra Day O'Connor on the Majesty of Law
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Pericles
Pericles on Defending Freedom
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John Quincy Adams
Adams' Speech on U.S. Foreign Policy
Adams' Speech on U.S
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Ayn Rand
Rational Life in an Irrational Society
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan on Taxes
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan on Trade
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Theodore Roosevelt
Fear God and Take Your Own Part
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith on Wages
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher on Morals of the State
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Alexis De Tocqueville
Democracy in America
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Emmerich Vattel
Emmerich de Vattel on the Law of Nations
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George Washington
George Washington's Farewell Address
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