This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from Vicesimus Knox’s sermon “The Prospect of Perpetual and Universal Peace” which he gave as the war being fought against the French republic was gearing up. He reminded his listeners of the Christian admonition “peace on earth, goodwill towards men.”
The Report on the abolition of slavery by a Commission which included Roger, Tocqueville, de Sade, de Rémusat, Cadeau-d’Arcy, Dugabé, Odilon Barrot, and de Panat. It was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies in July 1839 and conlcuded that “slavery could and should be abolished.”
The Best of the OLL No. 1: John Locke, “Of Property” (1698) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2013).
This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from John Locke’s *Second Treatise of Government” and is the chapter in which he defends his idea of the natural right to acquire, use, and trade property.
This is a compilation of all the quotations about Liberty and Power which we have used since the site was launched in March 2004. This edition contains 400 quotations which have appeared between March 2004 and January 20, 2013. Each week a new Quotation from one of the books in the OLL collection is added. The quotations are categorized by theme and provide a useful survey of the history of classical liberal thought over the past 500 years. See the front page of this site for the latest quote of the week.
An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises, ed. Wolfgang Leidhold (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).
A seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment which was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.
The Works of Benjamin Franklin, including the Private as well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, compiled and edited by John Bigelow (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). The Federal Edition in 12 volumes. Vol. VI (Letters and Misc. Writings 1772-1775).
The Works of Benjamin Franklin, including the Private as well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, compiled and edited by John Bigelow (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). The Federal Edition in 12 volumes. Vol. V (Letters and Misc. Writings 1768-1772).
A Concise History of the Common Law (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010).
