Books Published by Liberty Fund

Charles Murray on the pursuit of happiness (1988)

George Washington on War and Peace

James Buchanan on chaining Leviathan (1975)

James Madison on the dangers of elections resulting in overbearing majorities who respect neither justice nor individual rights, Federalist 10 (1788)

James Madison on the mischievous effects of mutable government in The Federalist no. 62 (1788)

James Madison on the need for the “separation of powers” because “men are not angels,” Federalist 51 (1788)

Jasay on the superiority of “spontaneous conventions” over “legal frameworks” (2007)

John Calhoun on Compromises

Lance Banning argues that within a decade of the creation of the US Constitution the nation was engaged in a bitter battle over the soul of the American Republic (2004)

Lord Acton on the destruction of the liberal Girondin group and the suicide of Condorcet during the French Revolution (1910)

Lord Acton on the storming of “the instrument and the emblem of tyranny” in Paris, the Bastille, on July 14, 1789 (1910)

Ludwig von Mises argues that monopolies are the direct result of government intervention and not the product of any inherent tendency within the capitalist system (1949)

Ludwig von Mises argues that the division of labor and human cooperation are the two sides of the same coin and are not antagonistic to each other (1949)

Ludwig von Mises identifies the source of the disruption of the world monetary order as the failed policies of governments and their central banks (1934)

Ludwig von Mises laments the passing of the Age of Limited Warfare and the coming of Mass Destruction in the Age of Statism and Conquest (1949)

Ludwig von Mises lays out five fundamental truths of monetary expansion (1949)

Madame de Staël argues that Napoleon was able to create a tyrannical government by pandering to men’s interests, corrupting public opinion, and waging constant war (1817)

Madame de Staël on how liberty is ancient and despotism is modern (1818)

Madame de Staël on the tyrant Napoleon (1818)

Madison on “Parchment Barriers” and the defence of liberty I (1788)

Mercy Otis Warren asks why people are so willing to obey the government and answers that it is supineness, fear of resisting, and the long habit of obedience (1805)

Mercy Otis Warren on Civil and Religious Rights and Tyranny

Milton Friedman and the Free Society

Milton Friedman on the Deconcentration of Power

Mises and the Emergence of Etatism in Germany (1944)

Mises on “interventionism” as a third way between the free market and socialism (1930)

Mises on classical liberalism and the gold standard (1928)

Mises on cosmopolitan cooperation and peace (1927)

Mises on how price controls lead to socialism (1944)

Mises on human action, football, and predicting the future (1966)

Mises on liberalism and the battle of ideas (1927)

Mises on the consumer as the “captain” of the economic ship (1944)

Mises on the gold standard as the symbol of international peace and prosperity (1949)

Mises on the interconnection between economic and political freedom (1949)

Mises on the public sector as “tax eaters” who “feast” on the assets of the ordinary tax payer (1953)

Mises on the State Theory of Money (1912)

Mises on the worship of the state or statolatry (1944)

Mises on wealth creation and stopping the spirit of predatory militarism (1949)

Mises states that it is the division of labor which makes man truly “social” or “communal” (1922)

Shaftesbury opposes the nonresisting test bill before the House of Lords as a step towards “absolute and arbitrary” government (1675)

Sidney argues that a People’s liberty is a gift of nature and exists prior to any government (1683)

Sir Edward Coke declares that your house is your “Castle and Fortress” (1604)

Sir Edward Coke defends British Liberties and the Idea of Habeas Corpus in the Petition of Right before Parliament (1628)

Sir Edward Coke explains one of the key sections of Magna Carta on English liberties (1642)

The 11th Day of Christmas: Mises on the gold standard and peace on earth (1934)

The Earl of Shaftesbury relates the story of an unscrupulous glazier who gives the rowdy town youths a football so they will smash windows in the street and thus drum up business (1737)

The Earl of Shaftesbury states that civility and politeness is a consequence of liberty by which “we polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides” (1709)

Thomas Gordon compares the Greatness of Spartacus with that of Julius Caesar (1721)

Thomas Gordon on the nature of power to expand (1721)

Thomas Jefferson opposed vehemently the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798 which granted the President enormous powers showing that the government had become a tyranny which desired to govern with "a rod of iron" (1798)

Tocqueville on centralization as the natural form of government for democracies (1835)

Tocqueville on the “New Despotism” (1837)

Tocqueville on the absence of government in America (1835)

Tocqueville warns how administrative despotism might come to a democracy like America (1840)

William Findley wants to maintain the separation of church and state and therefore sees no role for the “ecclesiastical branch” in government (1812)

William Leggett argues that Thanksgiving Day is no business of the government (1836)

William Paley dismisses as a fiction the idea that there ever was a binding contract by which citizens consented to be ruled by their government (1785)

William Paley on the tragedy of the commons (1785)

William Penn on property as one of the three fundamental rights all men have (1679)