"From my infancy I was passionately fond of reading, and all the money that came into my hands was laid out in the purchasing of books." -Benjamin Franklin

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The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
By: U.S. Grant

The Boys Life of Theodore Roosevelt
By: Hermann Hagedorn

The Life of Lincoln
By: Henry Ketcham

The Magna Carta
By: English Barons

The Columbian Orator
By: Caleb Bingham

The Tragedy of Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare

Cicero
By: John Lord

Lives of our Presidents
By: W.A. Peters

The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
By: Abraham Lincoln

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The Republic
By: Plato

The Prince
By: Nicollo Machiavelli

The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Second Treatise on Government
By: John Locke

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Riches
By: Francis Bacon

Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau

The Apology
By: Plato

Aesops Fables
By: Aesop

On Being
By: Jonathan Edwards

The Treatise on Friendship
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

A Discourse on the Passion of Love
By: Blaise Pascal

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: Benjamin Franklin

Common Sense
By: Tom Paine

George Washington
By: William Roscoe Thayer

The Farewell Address
By: George Washington

The Declaration of Independence
By: Thomas Jefferson

The U.S. Constitution
By: The Constitutional Convention

The Federalist #10
By: James Madison

Alexander Hamilton
By: Henry Jones Ford

Thomas Jefferson
By: David Saville Muzzey

The Life of James Madison
By: Gaillard Hunt

John Adams
By: John T. Morse