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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 Did the American Colonies Pay Too High a Cost for Revolution? (August/September 2023)

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power Cato and Republican Liberty

This images comes from the first edition (1713) of Joseph Addison's play "Cato. A Tragedy" which was so influential in the decades leading up to the American Revolution with its story of the courageous Cato the Younger defying Julius Caesar and choosing suicide over surrender. Liberty Fund has recently republished this classic work which can be found online here. The caption which accompan...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Job rightly wants to know why he, “the just upright man is laughed to scorn” while robbers prosper (6thC BC)

In Chapter 12 of the Book of Job, Job laments the fact that, even though he has understanding and is morally upright, he is laughed at and scorned whilst robbers prosper: