Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-458).

I Samuel 8 (The Bible) -- Of the Origin and Design of Government / Thomas Paine -- Federalist no. 10 / James Madison -- What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Objections to Government Interference / John Stuart Mill -- More of the Same / H. L. Mencken -- The Humanitarian with the Guillotine / Isabel Paterson -- The State / Murray Rothbard -- Self-Interest and the Constitution / Richard Epstein -- Understanding Can Not Be Compelled / John Locke -- Justice and Beneficence / Adam Smith -- The Subjugation of Women / Mary Wollstonecraft -- The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with That of the Moderns / Benjamin Constant -- Associations in Civil Life / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Interest Rightly Understood / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Man Cannot Hold Property in Man / William Lloyd Garrison -- You Are a Man, and So Am I / Frederick Douglass -- A Human Being Cannot Be Justly Owned / William Ellery Channing -- Rights and Responsibilities of Women / Angelina Grimke -- Woman as a Moral Being / Sarah Grimke -- Of Individuality / John Stuart Mill -- On Equality and Inequality / Ludwig von Mises -- The Tendrils of Community / Charles Murray -- Private Prejudice, Private Remedy / Doug Bandow -- An Arrow Against All Tyrants / Richard Overton -- Of Property and Government / John Locke -- Justice and Property / David Hume -- The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- Equality of Rights / Immanuel Kant -- The Right to Ignore the State / Herbert Spencer -- The Constitution of No Authority / Lysander Spooner -- The Playboy Interview with Ayn Rand / Alvin Toffler -- Ayn Rand on Rights and Capitalism / Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen -- The Entitlement Theory of Justice / Robert Nozick -- The Right to Do Wrong / Roger Pilon -- Harmony / Lao-tzu -- The Man of System / Adam Smith -- Of Society and Civilization / Thomas Paine -- The Use of Knowledge in Society / F. A. Hayek -- Two Kinds of Order / Michael Polanyi -- Made Orders and Spontaneous Orders / F. A. Hayek -- Economy as Ecosystem / Michael Rothschild -- The Division of Labor / Adam Smith -- Society and Self-Interest / Adam Smith -- Labor and Commerce / Adam Smith -- Free Trade / Adam Smith -- The Simple System of Natural Liberty / Adam Smith -- What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen / Frederic Bastiat -- Socialism and Intervention / Ludwig von Mises -- Redistributing Power / Bertrand de Jouvenel -- The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom / Milton Friedman -- The Market Order or Catallaxy / F. A. Hayek -- If You're Paying, I'll Have Top Sirloin / Russell Roberts -- Commerce Is the Grand Panacea / Richard Cobden -- Nonintervention / Richard Cobden -- The Eclipse of Liberalism / The Nation -- Peace / Ludwig von Mises -- The Case for Strategic Disengagement / Earl C. Ravenal -- Toward Strategic Independence / Ted Galen Carpenter -- Capitalism and the Permissive Society / Samuel Brittan -- Liberalism in the Coming Decade / Antonio Martino -- The Power and Poverty of Libertarian Thought / Richard Cornuelle -- The Culture of Liberty / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Governments in Decline / Norman Macrae -- Paternalist Government Is Out of Date / Michael Prowse -- "Creative Destruction" and the Innovation Age / Peter K. Pitsch -- Evolutionary Ecology / Lynn Scarlett -- The Future of Government / John Perry Barlow -- The Literature of Liberty / Tom G. Palmer.