 | The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha
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 | The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato
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 | Symposium and Phaedrus (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato
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 | The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato
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 | Nicomachean Ethics (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aristotle
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 | Politics (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aristotle
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 | The Republic and The Laws (Oxford World's Classics) by Cicero
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 | Cicero: On Duties (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 | On the Incarnation: De Incarnatione Verbi Dei (Popular Patristics Series) by St. Athanasius
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 | City of God (Penguin Classics) by Augustine of Hippo
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 | A Summa of the Summa by Thomas Aquinas
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 | The Portable Enlightenment Reader (The Viking Portable Library)
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 | America's Founding Secret: What the Scottish Enlightenment Taught Our Founding Fathers by Robert W. Galvin
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 | The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Locke
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 | The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Philosophical Classics) by Adam Smith
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 | The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith
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 | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon
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 | Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics) by Thomas Paine
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Here lies Tom Paine, who wrote in liberty's defence,
And in his 'Age of Reason' lost his 'Common Sense.'
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 | The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 (Dover Thrift Editions)
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 | The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton
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 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) by Benjamin Franklin
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 | Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack (Modern Library Humor and Wit) by Benjamin Franklin
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 | Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville
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 | The Law by Frederic Bastiat
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 | Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 | Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau
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 | Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau
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 | The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
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 | Abraham Lincoln: Great Speeches (Dover Thrift Editions) by Abraham Lincoln
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 | Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches by Ronald Reagan
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 | We, the People (Great Documents of the American Nation) by Jerome B. Agel
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| In Search of the Republic by Richard Vetterli
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