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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 Humboldt’s State – and Ours (May 2021)

Welcome to our May 2021 edition of Liberty Matters. This month Professor Michael Bentley has written our lead essay on Wilhelm von Humboldt. Humboldt is one of the least well known yet very influential liberal philosophers in the Western world. Humboldt is best known for his work in the fields of linguistics, education, and the importance of individual development. His most famous work, The...

Best of the OLL BOLL 72: "Three Agreements of the People" (1647-49)

This is part of “The OLL Reader: An Anthology of the Best of the OLL” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. A thematic list with links to HTML versions of the texts is available here. It contains three “Agreements of the People” in which the Levellers drew up their political demands for the reform of the British political system which they presented to Parliam...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Macaulay and Bunyan on the evils of swearing and playing hockey on Sunday (1830)

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) wrote an essay on the 17th century English religious writer John Bunyan (1628-1688) wittily defending him from the unfair attacks of his critics, one of whom called him a “depraved thinker”. In Macaulay’s view the worst one could say about him was that he swore a bit and played hockey on Sundays:

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power Abraham Lincoln as the "Federal Phoenix" (1864)

Abraham Lincoln as the "Federal Phoenix" rising from the fire of the American Constitution (1864) John Tenniel, "The Federal Phoenix", Punch, Volume 47, December 3, 1864. Source Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. <http://www.arthist.umn.e...

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