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Pascal and the absurd notion that the principles of justice vary across state borders (1669)
Theft, incest, infanticide, parricide, all have found a place among virtuous actions. Can there b...
Bentham on the liberty of contracts and lending money at interest (1787)
Among the various species or modifications of liberty, of which on different occasions we have he...
Lord Acton on the destruction of the liberal Girondin group and the suicide of Condorcet during the French Revolution (1910)
During the agony of his party, Condorcet found shelter in a lodging-house at Paris. There, under ...
Richard Overton shoots “An Arrow against all Tyrants” from the prison of Newgate into the prerogative bowels of the arbitrary House of Lords and all other usurpers and tyrants whatsoever (1646)
To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usur...
Herbert Spencer on the superiority of private enterprise over State activity (1853)
(T)hey seem to have read backwards the parable of the talents. Not to the agent of proved efficie...
John Milton believes men live under a “double tyranny” within (the tyranny of custom and passions) which makes them blind to the tyranny of government without (1649)
If men within themselves would be governed by reason, and not generally give up their understandi...
Sumner on the industrial system as an example of social co-operation (c. 1900)
The modern industrial system is a great (example of) social co-operation. It is automatic and ins...
Madame de Staël on how liberty is ancient and despotism is modern (1818)
It is of importance to repeat to those who are the advocates of rights founded on the past, that ...
Jefferson warns about the rise of an “Anglo-Monarchio-Aristocratic party” in America (1797)
Our political situation is prodigiously changed since you left us. Instead of that noble love of ...
Under Magna Carta the King cannot imprison a freeman without being convicted by a trial of his peers (1215)
No freeman shall be taken or [and] imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor...
Adam Smith on money as an instrument of commerce as well as a measure of value
That wealth consists in money, or in gold and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises ...
The 8th Day of Christmas: Jefferson on the inevitability of revolution in England only after which there will be peace on earth (1817)
I turn, however, with some confidence to a different auxiliary, a revolution in England, now, I b...
Confucius on Prudence and the Superior Man
Prudence: “The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.” (Analects...
John Adams on Religion and the Constitution
While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desol...
Adam Smith argued that the “propensity to truck, barter, and exchange” was inherent in human nature and gave rise to things such as the division of labour (1776)
This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect ...
Edmund Burke on the Levelling Spirit
These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, lib...