The Democracy Reader: Classic and Modern Speeches, Essays,
Poems, Declarations, and Documents on Freedom and Human
Rights Worldwide
Edited by Diane Ravitch and Abigal Thernstrom
Table of Contents
Section 1: Classical and European Thought
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War
Plato: The Republic
Aristotle: The Politics
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologia
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Discourses
John Milton: Areopagitica
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke: Second Treatise of Civil Government
Charles De Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of
Inequality
Edmund Burke: On Election to Parliament
Edmund Burke: Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
National Assembly of France: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen
Benjamin Constant: The Liberty of the Ancients Compared With That of the Moderns
Thomas Babington Macauly: Jewish Disabilities
William Wordsworth: The Prelude
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women
Walter Bagehot: The English Constitution
Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
W.H. Auden: September 1, 1939
George Orwell: England, Your England
Winston Churchill: The Iron Curtain
The Democracy Reader: Classic and Modern Speeches, Essays,
Poems, Declarations, and Documents on Freedom and Human
Rights Worldwide
Edited by Diane Ravitch and Abigal Thernstrom
Table of Contents
Section 1: Classical and European Thought
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War
circa 400 BC, Athens
Plato: The Republic
circa 347 BC, Athens
Aristotle: The Politics
circa 322 BC, Athens
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologia
circa 1250 AD
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Discourses
circa 1500 AD, Italy
John Milton: Areopagitica
circa 1650 AD, England
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
1651, England
John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration
1689, England
John Locke: Second Treatise of Civil Government
1690, England
Charles De Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws
1748, France
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of
Inequality
circa 1770, France
Edmund Burke: On Election to Parliament
1766, England
Edmund Burke: Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
circa 1780, England
National Assembly of France: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen
1789, France
Benjamin Constant: The Liberty of the Ancients Compared With That of the Moderns
1819, England
Thomas Babington Macauly: Jewish Disabilities
1833, England
William Wordsworth: The Prelude
1850, England
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
circa 1870, England
John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women
1869, England
Walter Bagehot: The English Constitution
1867, England
Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
W.H. Auden: September 1, 1939
George Orwell: England, Your England
Winston Churchill: The Iron Curtain
circa 1900, Germany
1939, England
circa 1950, England
1946, England