War and Peace

About this Collection

Wars can be fought to preserve freedom, and they can also be tragically destructive of it. The way that human societies have made war and sought peace throughout our existence provides a useful study for considering how best to keep and protect the freedoms we have, and how to gain the ones we want.

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the War and Peace section of the Ideas page.

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Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time (Ludwig von Mises)
Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution (Richard Price)
Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (Richard Price)
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War (Ludwig von Mises)
On War (Carl von Clausewitz)
On War, vol. 1 (Carl von Clausewitz)
On War, vol. 2 (Carl von Clausewitz)
On War, vol. 3 (Carl von Clausewitz)
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (1917 ed.) (Immanuel Kant)
Political Institutions, being Part V of the Principles of Sociology (Herbert Spencer)
The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, in 2 vols. (Richard Cobden)
The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 1 (Richard Cobden)
The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 2 (Richard Cobden)
Kant’s Principles of Politics, including his essay on Perpetual Peace (Immanuel Kant)
Puritanism and Liberty, being the Army Debates (1647-9) (Alexander Dunlop Lindsay)
The Rights of War and Peace (1901 ed.) (Hugo Grotius)
The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) 3 vols (Hugo Grotius)
The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 1 (Book I) (Hugo Grotius)
The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 2 (Book II) (Hugo Grotius)
The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 3 (Book III) (Hugo Grotius)
Russia (Richard Cobden)
Selected Speeches of the Rt. Hon. John Bright M.P. On Public Questions (John Bright)
Selected Discourses and Speeches (Andrew Fletcher)
Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, 2 vols. (John Bright)
Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, vol. 1 (John Bright)