Liberty -- Early works to 1800
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The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, c1975), by Estienne de La Boétie, ed. by Harry Kurz, contrib. by Murray N. Rothbard (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)- Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown; The Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and the End of Civil Government (London: Printed for A. Churchill, 1690), by John Locke
- An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government (Boston: Edes and Gill, 1773), by John Locke
- Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la Servitude Volontaire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942), by Estienne de La Boétie, trans. by Harry Kurz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke (PDF at McMaster)
- Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke (Gutenberg text)
- The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience, Discussed, in a Conference Betweene Truth and Peace (1644), by Roger Williams, contrib. by John Cotton
- A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shewing That it is Not Lawfull for Any Power on Earth to Compell in Matters of Religion (1659), by John Milton (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
- The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody, by Mr Cottons Endevour to Wash it White in the Blood of the Lambe (London: Printed for G. Calvert, 1652), by Roger Williams
- The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed, and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered (London: Printed for the Hanserd Knollys Society by J. Haddon, 1848), by Roger Williams, ed. by Edward Bean Underhill, contrib. by John Cotton
- The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed; and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered (originally published 1644; London: J. Haddon, 1848), by Roger Williams, ed. by Edward Bean Underhill
- The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (Publications of the Narragansett Club, first series, v3; 1867), by Roger Williams, ed. by Samuel L. Caldwell
- An Edict of the French King, Prohibiting all Publick Exercise of the Pretended Reformed Religion in His Kingdom (with various related documents; second edition, corrected; London: Printed by G. M., 1686), by King of France Louis XIV, contrib. by Elector of Brandenburg Friedrich Wilhelm (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Liberty- Cost of Freedom: A Collective Inquiry (2015) (PDF with commentary at costoffreedom.cc)
- Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire, and Freedom (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2010), by Anthony Bogues (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
- Self-Liberation: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression (East Boston, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c2009), by Gene Sharp, contrib. by Jamila Raqib (PDF via aeinstein.org)
- Against Freedom: The War on Terrorism in Everyday New Zealand Life (2007), by Valerie Morse (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)
- Freedom, Law and Justice (Hamlyn Lectures, #50; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1999), by Stephen Sedley (PDF in the UK)
- Pattern for Revolt (originally published 1948; this edition Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1995), by Leonard E. Read (PDF with commentary at fee.org)
- Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery (second edition; Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, c1993), by F. A. Harper (multiple formats with commentary at fee.org)
- Freedom and the Law (third edition, 1991), by Bruno Leoni (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
- The Freedom Philosophy (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1990), ed. by Paul L. Poirot (PDF at fee.org)
- For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1978), by Murray N. Rothbard (HTML and PDF at mises.org)
- The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Uday Singh Mehta (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press)
- Mill on Liberty (1980), by Chin Liew Ten (HTML at Victorian Web)
- "Author of Liberty" (Collingswood, NJ: Christian Beacon Press, 1946), by Carl McIntire (page images at HathiTrust)
- Our Heritage of Liberty, Its Origin, Its Achievement, Its Crisis: A Book for War Time (c1942), by Stephen Leacock (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Social Choice and Individual Values (Cowles Foundation monograph #12, second edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1963), by Kenneth J. Arrow (PDF at Yale)
- Protection from Power Under English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #9; London: Stevens and Sons, 1957), by John Clarke MacDermott (PDF in the UK)
- Civil Liberty: A Sermon (1856), by Noah Porter, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
- The Decline of Liberty in England, by E. S. P. Haynes (DjVu at archive.org)
- The Ethics of Liberty (1998 edition), by Murray N. Rothbard, contrib. by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (PDF and partial HTML at mises.org)
- The Evolution of Modern Liberty (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904), by George L. Scherger (multiple formats at Indiana)
- The Fetishism of Liberty (New York: Marxian Philosophical Society, 1917), by Harry Waton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Liberty: A Speech Delivered at Battery D, Chicago, on Release from Woodstock Jail, November 22, 1895 (1895 speech made on author's release from jail; Chicago: C.H. Kerr and Co, ca. 1911), by Eugene V. Debs (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (New York: Holt and Williams, 1873), by James Fitzjames Stephen
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1873), by James Fitzjames Stephen (HTML at terrenceberres.com)
- Liberty Luminants: Extracted Largely From the Writings of Montaigne, Paine, Thoreau, Emerson and Tolstoy- Gaul, Anglo-Saxons, Slav- Each Secure on Fame's Eternal Bead Roll (Ithaca, NY: H. Bool, ca. 1902), contrib. by Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Leo Tolstoy
- The Mainspring of Human Progress (1953 edition), by Henry Grady Weaver (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
- Never Again: Ending War, Democide, and Famine Through Democratic Freedom, by R. J. Rummel (PDF at Hawaii)
- On Liberty (4th edition, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (HTML at Bartleby)
- On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill (HTML at Bartleby)
- On Liberty (with an added introduction; London et al.: Walter Scott Pub. Co., ca. 1901), by John Stuart Mill, contrib. by W. L. Courtney (Gutenberg text)
- Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, by Lysander Spooner (HTML with commentary at mind-trek.com)
- Social Choice and Individual Values (Cowles Foundation monograph #12, first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1951), by Kenneth J. Arrow (PDF at Yale)
- Freedom Under the Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #1; London: Stevens and Sons, 1949), by Sir Alfred Denning (PDF in the UK)
- Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Price of Free World Victory: An Address Before the Free World Association, New York City, May 8, 1942 (Washington: GPO, 1942), by Henry A. Wallace
- The Wave of the Past (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941), by R. H. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
- Law and Order (Hamlyn Lectures, #37; London: Stevens and Sons, 1985), by Ralf Dahrendorf (PDF in the UK)
- Die Freiheitskriege Kleiner Völker Gegen Grosse Heere (in German; Bern : Haller'sche verlagsbuchhandlung, 1867), by Franz von Erlach
- Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, by Thomas Hill Green (PDF at McMaster)
- The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
- The Reconciliation of Government with Liberty (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by John William Burgess
- Topics of Jurisprudence Connected with Conditions of Freedom and Bondage, by John C. Hurd (page images at MOA)
- Freedom's Charter: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (with the text of the Declaration; Headline Series #76; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1949), by O. Frederick Nolde, contrib. by Eleanor Roosevelt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lucius B. Swift: A Biography (Indiana Historical Society Publications, v9; Indianapolis: Pub. for the Society by the Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1930), by William Dudley Foulke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Freedom, Cultural Traditions, and Progress: Philosophy in Civil Society and Nation Building, by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)
- La Philosophie Bergsonienne (in French; Paris: M. Rivière et cie, 1914), by Jacques Maritain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (New York: D. Appleton, 1891), ed. by Thomas Mackay (HTML at econlib.org)
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