Related Links: Collections: The American Revolution and Constitution Thomas Paine Source: Thomas Paine, The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 1.| oll.libertyfund.org
These natural hopes, and fears, and suspicions, were propagated by sympathy, and confirmed by education; and the gods were universally represented and believed to be the rewarders of humanity and mercy, and the avengers of perfidy and injustice. And thus religion, even in its rudest form, gave a sanction to the rules of morality, long before the age of artificial reasoning and philosophy. That the terrors of religion should thus enforce the natural sense of duty, was of too much importance to...| oll.libertyfund.org
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.” Those are the words of Patrick Henry to the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788.| oll.libertyfund.org
Session 2 In this session the following texts will be discussed: Jefferson to William Stephen Smith (11/13/1787); Jefferson to James Madison (12/20/1787); Jefferson to Alexander Donald (2/7/1788) (not available online) Hamilton, The Federalist, Nos. 1, 6, 9, 70-72, 78, 84. Hamilton's Speech in the Constitutional Convention (Madison's vesion) (6/18/1787) Hamilton, Conjectures on the Convention (September 1787) Hamilton, Contintentalist Nos. 1 & 4| oll.libertyfund.org
Created: 17 July, 2015 Updated: 22 June 2017 (updated to include material from CW4); corrected 6 Ja. 2018 Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Tite Page of Economic Sophisms II (1848) Tite Page of Economic Harmonies (1st ed., 1850) Contents Introduction Early Writings: The Bayonne and Mugron Years, 1819–1844 The “Paris” Writings I: Bastiat and the Free Trade Movement (Oct. 1844 - Feb. 1848) The “Paris” Writings II: Bastiat the Politician, Anti-Socialist, and Economist (Feb. 1848 - Dec. 18...| oll.libertyfund.org
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people, indeed, supplies him with the whole fu...| oll.libertyfund.org
