OLL Collections
The OLL brings books and ideas together so they can converse with each other and with you. We’ve gathered together collections of texts from historical movements and about big ideas that have changed the world to make it easier to allow our texts to “talk” to each other.
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People & Quotations
Philosophy
Shaftesbury and Self-Truth
Freedom of Speech
The Earl of Shaftesbury on the value of good conversations for questioning everything (1709)
Presidents, Kings, Tyrants, & Despots
Tocqueville on the “New Despotism” (1837)