A Primer List of Books and Videos (free downloads whenever possible)
This list is by no means exhaustive. These are meant as starting points It would be difficult to compile 4-5 decades of reading and research. I’ve never been one to merely take one’s word for it. Where possible the root documents and writings have been sought out and studied. In that spirit, know for your self, otherwise the popular winds of ideas currently in vogue will rob you and those you love of the best of life.
The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat
- https://mises.org/library/law
- http://econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basLawCover.html
- http://www.constitution.org/cmt/bastiat/the_law.html
- http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Founding Documents of the US
- The Federalist Papers, et al
- The Constitution of the United States
- The Declaration of Independence
- http://www.constitutionfacts.com/
- http://www.cato.org/us-constitution
- https://online.hillsdale.edu/dashboard/courses (free online video college level courses)
- Founding Father,Info
- Written Out of History (The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government)
- Samuel Rutherford’s Lex Rex
- History – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex,_Rex
- The Book
- The American Presidency Project (a good collection of the speeches and papers of the US Presidents – their words, not what others say they said)
- US Library of Congress
- Frederick Douglas (USLOC archives)
- The Rights of Man: here & here.
- The Yale Law Avalon Project
Milton Friedman –
- Capitalism & Freedom, Milton Friedman
- Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
- Why Government is the Problem (Essays on Public Policy)
- Milton Friedman Institute
F.A. Hayek –
- The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek & Road to Serfdom in 5-minutes (Video)
- The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek)
- F.A. Hayek – Mises Institute
C.S. Lewis –
Economic Alchemy, Paul Zane Pilzer
Also……
Hillsdale College Online Courses
Foundation for Economic Education
Library of Economics and Liberty
And one last resource, something to consider about the nation of mankind, or as Madison put it
the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. – James Madison, Federalist Papers, No. 51
A history of democide (death by government): https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
Know for your self what is true. Challenge your mind, your thoughts, and it will open the whole world to you.
Lex Rex for All 