“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions…”
- John Locke (1690)
Nichomachean Ethics – Aristotle (circa 335-323 BCE)
Politics – Aristotle (circa 335-323 BCE)
Two Treatises of Civil Government – John Locke (1690)
The Religion of Nature Delineated – William Wollaston (1722)
Commentaries on the Laws of England – William Blackstone (1765-69)
The Rights of the Colonists – Samuel Adams (1772)
A Summary View of the Rights of British America – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
Declaration and Resolves on Colonial rights of the First Continental Congress (1774)
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
For a New Liberty – The Libertarian Manifesto – Murray Rothbard (1973)
Introduction to Natural Law – Murray Rothbard (1982)
Wikipedia on the Non-Aggression Principle
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