The Man versus the State, by Herbert Spencer

From the Dust Jacket of a Classic Edition of The Man versus the State:

A Classic Statement of the Case for Individual Liberty -- A Theme Revived in an Acute Form by the Struggle between the Democratic and Totalitarian Systems.

... we are in a course of rebarbarization, and that there is no prospect but that of military despotisms, which we are rapidly approaching.

From the Introduction:

... this work [Social Statics; or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified] ... established and made clear the fundamental principle that society should be organized on the basis of voluntary cooperation, not on the basis of compulsory cooperation, or under the threat of it. In a word, it established the principle of individualism as against Statism -- against the principle underlying all collectivist doctrines which are everywhere dominant at the present time.

The Man versus the State Table of Contents:

The New Toryism
The Coming Slavery
From Freedom to Bondage
The Sins of Legislators
Over-Legislation
The Great Political Superstition
Index

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The Business End of Government, by Dan Smoot

About Dan Smoot's The Business End of Government

The business end of government is a gun. Dan Smoot's book is "An in-depth look at how Federal regulators threaten to destroy the American businessman."

From the back cover of The Business End of Government:

The American Businessman has been the driving force in the economic success of our free-enterprise system. Today, his survival is being threatened -- not by the hazards of the marketplace or the pressures of competition but by the very government he is taxed to support and which was instituted to secure his liberty.

From the Introduction:

Mao Tse-Tung, the father of the Communist dictatorship in China, is widely quoted as having said: "Power comes out the barrel of a gun." According to a recent report of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Mao has used that power to murder nearly 64 million of his own people -- many for no other reason than that owning a small piece of land has made them capitalists.

Identifying the same principle, George Washington, the father of our country, observed: "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force." But Washington, loving liberty, devoted himself to binding down that force with the once powerful chains of the Constitution, defending, the right of free men to live, produce, and prosper in a free economy.

Contents:

Introduction
Railroading the Public
Trustbusting
Unions and Labor
The Fourth Branch: Regulation
Harassment: The OSHA Syndrome
The FDA Con Game
Farming and Framing the Taxpayers
Federal Form Pollution
A Can of Legal Worms
The Price of 600 Birds
Yardsticks and Clubs
Cleaning Up and Trussing Up
Is the Goose in the Oven?

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The Kingdom of Moltz, by Irwin Schiff

The Kingdom of Moltz -- Inflation Explained Simply:

Cover text includes "About Inflation and Where it Comes From", "Puzzled by Inflation? This Book Proves that any 10 Year Old can Explain Where Inflation Comes from and Why".

Cartoon book written by Irwin Schiff and illustrated by Andrew Ice. Especially suitable for children as well as adults.

From the Back Cover:

Puzzled by inflation? This book proves that any 10 year old can explain where inflation comes from and why!

From the Introduction:

To write of "inflation" is to write of people's infinite capacity to be tricked by politicians.

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The Miracle on Main Street; Saving Yourself and America from Financial Ruin, by F. Tupper Saussy

About The Miracle on Main Street, by F. Tupper Saussy:

Frederick Tupper Saussy's forbears emigrated from France to Savannah, Georgia, in the early 19th century "not because of any 'American Dream'," he explains, "but because the people of the United States had just created the world's finest Constitution. The French know quality."

From the Foreword:

Distinguished economics experts, Nobel Prize winners, and White House advisors notwithstanding, The Miracle on Main Street contains the only lawful and workable solution there can ever be to our worsening financial woes, public and private. Amazingly, this solution is already with us, built into the mechanics of our government. But the design is such that the solution must be activated from OUTSIDE government, activated by you and me -- the people.

Table of Contents -- The Miracle on Main Street:

Prologue: Exodus from the Ideasphere
The Gathering Tragedy
The Only Cause of Inflation
The Right to Alter and Abolish
A Favourable Crisis for Crushing Paper Money
A Sudden Sense of Prosperity and Tranquility
Weavers of "The American Dream": The Friends of Paper Money
Brother Max
Is Dream Money Lawful Money?
Starting the Miracle by Reducing the Ignorance Factor
The Proper Course for Government
Under Investigation
Putting the Constitution into Your Everyday Conversation
A Lesson They'll Never Forget
The Miracle on Main Street
Understanding Government for What it Really Is
Epilogue: The Illusion of Status Quo
Appendix

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A Declaration of Financial Independence, by John Grandbouche

From the Introduction to A Declaration of Financial Independence:

...one of the strictest mandates in our Constitution is against paper money. Article I Section 10 says that "No State shall ... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts."

From Chapter I:

Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.
-- Frederic Bastiat, 1801-1850

Table of Contents for A Declaration of Financial Independence:

Introduction
In the Beginning
Why You Need Financial Freedom
The Federal Reserve Fraud
A Fluctuating Medium of Exchange
The National Commodity and Barter Association
Your Ticket to Freedom: Warehouse Exchanges
The World's Only Free Society
The Law, Part One: Common Law and Equity
The Law, Part Two: The Constitution and the Declaration
The Law, Part Three: The Separation of Powers
The Law, Part Four: The Separation of Jurisdictions
Get Into Politics!
Seeing the Change
A Caveat Against "Religion"
A Winning Attitude
Epilogue
The Declaration
The Constitution
Constitutional Protections
Money Facts
My Personal Declaration
Bibliography

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Clichés of Socialism, by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), Leonard E. Read

About Cliches of Socialism, from the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE):

Failure to answer socialistic clichés has effectively silenced many a spokesman for freedom.

Clichés of Socialism is a collection of suggested answers to some of the most common arguments used in favor of socialism today.

From the Frontspiece:

When a devotee of private property, free market, limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of socialistic clichés. Failure to answer these has effectively silenced many a spokesman for freedom.

Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the "Clichés of Socialism." These are not the only answers or even the best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty that are the only effective displacement for the empty promises of socialism.

Partial Table of Contents for Cliches of Socialism:

The more complex the society, the more government control we need
If we had no social security, many people would go hungry
The government should do for the people what the people are unable to do for themselves
The right to strike is conceded, but ...
Too much government? Just what would you cut out?
The size of the national debt doesn't matter because we owe it to ourselves
Why, you'd take us back to the horse and buggy
The free market ignores the poor
Man is born for cooperation, not competition
Americans squander their incomes on themselves while public needs are neglected
Labor unions are too powerful today, but were useful in the past
We have learned to counteract and thus avoid any serious depression
Human rights are more important than property rights
... and many more more essays ...

The Authors of Clichés of Socialism:

These answers to various socialistic clichés are by authors such as Leonard E. Read, Paul L. Poirot, Murray N. Rothbard, Hans F. Sennholz, R. C. Hoiles, Robert LeFevre, W. M. Curtiss, Roland W. Holmes, Dean Russell, Thomas J. Shelly, Henry Hazlitt, W. C. Mullendore, Harold Brayman, Benjamin A. Rogge, Willis H. Hall, Jack Morano.

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Do Unto the IRS as They Would Do Unto You: The Taxpayer Strikes Back, by Red Beckman

About Red Beckman's Do Unto the IRS as They Would Do Unto You:

He ["Red" Beckman] believes we are committing national suicide. We are destroying ourselves by allowing tax consumers to decide what is a fair share [of taxes]. We also gave our consent when fear and force are used by tax consumers to collect taxes. This is an insanity which is discouraging the production of jobs and wealth.

From the Introduction:

Every single person [in the U.S.A.] was given sovereignty by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. But what good, or value, is sovereignty if one does not know how to exercise it?

The Taxpayer Strikes Back Table of Contents:

Dedication
Introduction
Letter to the I.R.S. #1
Letter to the I.R.S. #2
Letter to the I.R.S. #3
Letter to the I.R.S. #4
Letter to the I.R.S. #5
Letter to the I.R.S. #6
Summary of Letters
How to Enjoy an I.R.S. Tax Audit
The Biggest Cover-up
Stolen Votes
Portrait of an American Traitor
One Nation Under God or Caesar?
If You Don't Know the Solution
The New Minority
While People Sleep
Consent of the Governed
You, Me and the Fed
We Can Bring Honest Government Back
Three Votes of the People
Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States of America
Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto

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Born Again Republic, by Red Beckman

About Red Beckman's Born Again Republic:

Fear of the I.R.S. permeates our society. Our government consumes over half the wealth produced by our productive people. The hard-working citizen is forced to pay and pay as government becomes an insane monster.

We, the people, did this to ourselves. The I.R.S. has no power to send a taxpayer to jail. The people are called for jury duty and it is the guilty verdict of that jury which gave the I.R.S. its power to terrorize and abuse.

Can we find one good, informed, and hard-headed citizen on each and every jury who will say 'NOT GUILTY', 'NOT GUILTY' until he either hangs the jury or educates the rest of the jury?

Will you vote on the jury to protect your fellow citizens from bad law written by dishonest politicians? Will you vote yourself free of fear and big government? Your vote on the jury is your most important vote. Vote for 'We the People'.

Born Again Republic Table of Contents:

What Revolution?
Democracy vs. Constitutional Republic
Laws & More Laws
The Brain Scrubbers
The Pious Puppets
The Sugar Daddies and the Free Lunch Syndrome
The Selected Figurehead
Rehabilitate the Judges
The Fear Peddlers
The Montana Story
Let No One Blame Another
Declaration of Independence
United States Constitution
Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto
While People Sleep
Red's Testimony on I.R.S. Abuses
Divide, Separate and Conquer

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A Plea for the Constitution of the United States, Wounded in the House of Its Guardians by George Bancroft

About A Plea for the Constitution of the United States, by George Bancroft:

George Bancroft knew the intent of the framers, expounders, and executors of the United States Constitution better, perhaps, than any of his contemporaries. Born in 1800, he had personally talked with James Madison, John Adams...

Too, he was well-qualified to discuss our Constitution as it applied to foreign nations, having been Secretary of the Navy and founder of the Naval Academy at Annapolis...

From the Introduction:

Good money must have an intrinsic value. The United States of America cannot make its shadow legal tender for debts payable in money without ultimately bringing upon their foreign commerce, and their home industry a catastrophe ...

Table of Contents for A Plea for the Constitution:

Preface
Introduction
History of American Bills of Credit
Further History of Bills of Credit
The Doors Shut Against Paper Money
The Court and the Constitution
What is to be Done?
Appendix
Selected Bibliography

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