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Online Library of Liberty The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty.

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Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty Liberty and Civic Education

What is civic education, and why does it matter? Further, what constitutes civic education, and whose task should it be to ensure a nation's citizens are civically literate? These are the questions this edition of Liberty Matters hopes to explore, beginning with our lead essayist, David Davenport. Davenport will be joined by Mark Schug, Rachael Davison Humphries, and Lee Trepanier to discuss th...

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power The Gold Standard vs. Fiat Paper Money

Top: a 20 Mark Gold Coin - Deutsches Reich, Wilhelm II German Emperor and King of Prussia (1900) Bottom: a 10 Billion Mark German banknote (October 1923) As the Austrian economist Ludwig vo...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Grotius on Moderation in Despoiling the Country of one’s Enemies (1625)

While the 30 Years War was ravaging Europe the Dutch legal scholar Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) wrote The Rights of War and Peace (1625) which has become a foundation stone of modern thinking concerning the laws of war. In a chapter on “moderation in despoiling the country of one’s enemies” he reflects on the folly of destroying that which one had striven so hard to acquire by means of violence: