 Adam Smith on Wages
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 Judicial Usurpations in Constitutional
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 Adams' Speech on U.S. Foreign Policy
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 Lincoln on Preservation
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 Cicero: Treatise on the Commonwealth
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 Coming Soon!
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 Commentary on the Book of Genesis
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 Margaret Thatcher on Morals of the State
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 Defense of the American System
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 Mikhail Gorbachev on Trade Restrictions
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 Democracy in America
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 This is an excerpt from Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, a book originally published by the University of Chicago Press in 1962. Friedman is a leading U.S. economist and influential writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976 and was later awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a National Medal of Science in 1988. Friedman is a strong advocate of economic freedom.
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 Dwight Eisenhower on Bureaucratic Government
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 Pericles on Defending Freedom
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 Emmerich de Vattel on the Law of Nations
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 Welcome to the Preserving America Library. The first step towards being a true, educated Conservative is knowing what it means to be Conservative and how it works.
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 Fear God and Take Your Own Part
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 Ayn Rand on Virtue
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 Francis Lieber on Self-Government
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 This is an excerpt from Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, originally written in 1790. Burke was a leader of the English Whig Party during the late 1700's and one of the most important political philosophers of the era. Reflections was his answer to the outbreak of the French Revolution, which he recognized as a disaster with prophetic clarity before that fact became obvious to everyone else following the numerous bloodbaths, the Reign of Terror and its culmination in despotism under the Emperor Napoleon. Burke was a fierce critic of social upheavals and wholesale innovation to long standing constitutional systems.
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 Franklin Roosevelt on Judges
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 Ronald Reagan on Taxes
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 Frederick Douglass on Religion and Human Dignity
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 Ronald Reagan on Trade
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 George Washington's Farewell Address
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 Sandra Day O'Connor on the Majesty of Law
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 Hamilton on the Nature of Rights
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 The Good Society
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 Henry Cabot Lodge on Independence
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 This is an excerpt from The History of Freedom, published by the Macmillan Company in 1907. The book was a collection of essays by Lord Acton on the subject of freedom throughout history. This particular essay was originally delivered as an address entitled "The History of Freedom in Antiquity" to members of the Bridgnorth Institution in 1877. Lord Acton served as a member of the British House of Commons in the middle of the 1800's. He later served as a Professor of History at Cambridge University and as editor of a Catholic journal called the Rambler. Lord Acton was a leading historical scholar and a well published author. He was known as one of the most articulate defenders of religious and political liberty.
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 Henry Clay on the Seminole War
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 The Road to Serfdom
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 Herbert Hoover on Liberty
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 This is an excerpt from Alan Dershowitz's commentary on the Scopes Trial of 1925. This commentary is found as the Introduction to a book called The Scopes Trial published by Gryphon Editions in 1990. Dershowitz has spent most of his career as a law professor at Harvard University and is a high profile criminal defense attorney. He is a noted author and influential modern commentator.
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 History of Early Rome
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 This is an excerpt from The Tempting of America by Robert Bork, a book published by the Free Press in 1990. Judge Bork served on the faculty at Yale Law School from 1962 to 1981. He served as Solicitor General from 1973 to 1977; acting Attorney General from 1973 to 1974; and Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1982 to 1988. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1987. Judge Bork's nomination was denied by a Democrat controlled Senate following a hotly contested confirmation battle. He is a leading expert in constitutional law and history.
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 Irving Kristol on Entitlement
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 Thomas Hobbes on Punishments
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 James Madison on Inalienable Rights
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 Thomas Jefferson on Immigration
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 James Madison on Manufactures
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 Thomas Jefferson on Islamic Terrorism
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 James Monroe on Self-Rule
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 *Preamble:* We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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 Thomas Jefferson on Wartime Civil Liberties
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 THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
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 John Adams on Rights of Property
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 John Locke on Legislative Power
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 This is an excerpt from "Why Courage Matters" by Senator John McCain, a book published by Random House in 2004. Senator McCain served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. During the conflict he was captured and confined in a prisoner of war camp by the North Vietnamese. McCain has served in the United States Senate since 1987 and ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000; then again successfully in 2008. He is a leading, modern statesman and expert in foreign policy matters.
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 John Marshall on Legislation
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 Will Durant on the Decay of Civilization
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