| Hesiod |
Works and Days |
| Aeschylus |
Prometheus Bound |
| Sophocles |
Antigone |
| Thucydides |
History of the Peloponnesian Wars |
| Plato |
Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Meno |
| Aristotle |
Ethics, Poetics, Politics |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero |
De Legibus, De Officiis, De Republica |
| Bible |
Old Testament, New Testament |
| Tacitus |
History of Germany |
| St. Augustine |
Confessions, Concerning the Teacher, On Music |
| St. Anselm |
Proslogium |
| St. Thomas |
Of the Teacher, Treatise on Laws |
| Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen |
The Imitation of Christ |
| Thomas á Kempis |
The Imitation of Christ |
| Machiavelli |
The Prince |
| Martin Luther |
Ninety-Five Theses, Commentary on Galatians, Of Christian Liberty, Babylonian Captivity of the Church, The Christian Nobility of Germany |
| John Calvin |
Institutes of the Christian Religion (especially “The Letter to the King of the French” and “The Twentieth Institute”), Commentary on Romans, Commentary on Daniel, Commentary on Galatians |
| John Milton |
Areopagitica |
| James Harrington |
Oceana |
| John Locke |
Second Treatise on Civil Government, Letter on Toleration |
| Montesquieu |
The Spirit of the Laws |
| David Hume |
Political Essays |
| Adam Smith |
The Wealth of Nations |
| William Blackstone |
On the Nature of Laws in General |
| Immanuel Kant |
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Perpetual Peace, Critique of Pure Reason |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Faust, Egmont |
| Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution and Amendments |
| Max Farrand, ed. |
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay |
The Federalist Papers |
| Daniel Webster and B. H. Liddell Hart |
Conscription |
| John Stuart Mill |
On Liberty |
| Jacob Burckhardt |
Force and Freedom |
| Lord Acton |
Freedom in Christianity, Freedom in Antiquity, Letters to Bishop Creighton, Massacre of St. Bartholomew, Protestant Theory of Persecution |
| Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk |
Capital and Interest |
| Hugo Leichtentritt |
Music, History, and Ideas |
| Roscoe Pound |
The Development of Constitutional Guarantees of Liberty, Jurisprudence |
| Ludwig von Mises |
Human Action, Socialism |
| Leonard Read |
Government, an Ideal Concept |
| Dean Russell |
The Conscription Idea |
| Richard M. Weaver |
Ideas Have Consequences |
| F. A. Hayek |
The Constitution of Liberty |
| Henry Hazlitt |
The Failure of the “New Economics,” The Critics of Keynesian Economics |
| Felix Morley |
Freedom and Federalism |
| Wilhelm von Röpke |
A Humane Economy |
| Pierre F. Goodrich |
“Why Liberty?” “Education Memorandum” |
| Gottfried Dietze |
The Federalist |
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