Thoughts on government / John Adams -- Emancipation Ukase / Czar Alexander II -- On Kingship / St. Thomas Aquinas -- State / Aristotle -- City of God / St. Augustine -- Of the limits which separate morals from legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- On conciliation with America / Edmund Burke -- The "Iron Curtain" speech / Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill -- On justice / Marcus Tullius Cicero -- Laws of heaven and the earthly order / Confucius -- Croce on Machiavelli / Benedetto Croce -- Puritan commonwealth / Oliver Cromwell -- First philippic / Demosthenes -- To Viscount Palmerston / Benjamin Disraeli -- Origin of the state / Friedrich Engels -- Ahimsa or the Way of non-violence -- Rational basis of international law / Hugo Grotius -- Consitutionality of the bank / Alexander Hamilton -- Nature of freedom / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Racial state / Adolf Hitler -- Natural condition of mankind / Thomas Hobbes -- First inaugural address ; Declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- To Van Swieten ; To Count Kollowrat ; To a Hungarian Magnat ; To Tobias Philip / Joseph II of Austria -- Perpetual peace / Immanual Kant -- Two phases of communist society / Nicolai Lenin -- Gettysburg address ; Second inaugural address / Abraham LIncoln -- Political power / John Locke -- Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Federalist no. 47 / James Madison -- On the people's democratic dictatorship / Mao Tse-tung -- Class basis of political power / Karl Marx -- Proper limits of government / John Stuart Mill -- Nature of laws / Montesque -- Utopia / Sir Thomas More -- Bureaucratice state / Gaetano Mosca -- Doctrine of fascism / Benito Mussolini -- Proclamation, 19th brumaire / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Common sense / Thomas Paine -- Elite / Vilfredo Pareto -- Religon and society / William Penn -- Democratice way of life / Pericles -- Speech on the stamp act / William Pitt -- Republic ; Statesman / Plato -- Complexity of human nature / Pierre Joseph Proudhon -- Proposed declaration of rights / Maximilien Robespierre -- Social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- New social order / Claude Henri, Comete de Saint-Simon -- Class war and violence / George Sorel -- State and power / Oswald Spengler -- On the right of supreme authorities / Benedict de Spinoza -- Rule by the party / Joseph Stalin -- A message to the Soviet Union ; History of the chinese revolution / Sun Yat-sen -- Why the people...govern in the United States / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Farewell address / George Washington -- Concept of legitimate authority ; Concepts of power and domination / Max Weber