The Library

Our Founding Fathers were far ahead of their time. They were inventors, writers, philosophers, and entrepreneurs. In the spirit of advancing ones own person through self education, here is the "Library" of the Grandsons of Liberty. It will contain texts relating to the underlying concepts of Liberty. Please feel free to give suggestions.

The Declaration of Independence

The Constitution of the United States of America

The Magna Carta

The Federalist Papers

The Constitution of the Individual States

The Law - Frederic Bastiat

Common Sense - Thomas Paine

The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich A. Hayek

The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

The Revolution: A Manifesto - Ron Paul

End The Fed - Ron Paul

Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom - Ron Paul

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand

Anthem - Ayn Rand

1984 - George Orwell

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics - Henry Hazlitt

Capitalism & Freedom - Milton Friedman

Crash Proof - Peter Schiff

How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes - Peter Schiff

For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto - Murray Rothbard

The Ethics of Liberty - Murray Rothbard

Socialism - Ludwig Von Mises

Human Action - Ludwig Von Mises

The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich - William L. Shirer

Books I personally think are great:

1984 - George Orwell (Goes without saying)

Brand New World - Aldous Huxley (Goes without saying)

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (a personal favorite; It's about a man and his indomitable will.)

Anthem - Ayn Rand (short novella that can be read in an afternoon, but powerful message about what personal freedom means)

Animal Farm - George Orwell

I'll recommended reading your individual state's constitution as well.

Find your State Here:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_constitution_%28United_States%29

If this was posted, I must have missed it. Whoops.

Frederic Bastiat's "The Law"

http://lastingliberty.org/?page_id=9

There's one passage in particular that sticks out to me.

" Life, faculties, production–in other words, individuality, liberty, property —this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

That's beautiful.

Anon posted this earlier, it's from the Declaration of Independence:

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."