Sir William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Sir William Blackstone About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom...
Adam Smith

Adam Smith

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Adam Smith About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the...
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Jean Jacques Rousseau About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”- Rousseau b. 1712 CE – d. 1778 CE Jean Jacques...
David Hume

David Hume

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION David Hume About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and...
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Benjamin Franklin About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Let not princes disdain to admit into their councils those who are most capable of giving them good advice… It is by this means only that we are likely to see what...