Plato: Republic -- Aristotle: Politics -- Polybius: Histories -- Cicero: Republic -- Laws -- Slave and emperor: Two Stoic philosophers -- Epictetus: Discourses -- Manual -- Marcus Aurelius: Meditations -- St. Augustine: City of God -- John of Salisbury: Statesman's book -- St. Thomas Aquinas: On kingship -- Summa theologica -- Dante: De monarchia -- Marsilio of Padua: Defender of Peace -- Machiavelli: Prince -- Protestant Reformation: Luther: Secular authority- To what extent it should be obeyed -- Calvin: Institutes of the Christian religion -- Stephen Junius Brutus: Defense of liberty against tyrants -- Bodin: Six books on the state -- Hobbes: Leviathan -- Locke: Two treatises of government -- Montesquieu: Spirit of the laws -- Rousseau: Social contract -- Burke: Reflections on the revolution in France -- Bentham: Principles of morals and legislation -- Dilemna of democracy: Liberty and equality: Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America -- John Stuart Mill: On liberty -- Cult of the state: Hegel: Philosophy of law -- Benito Mussolini: Doctrine of fascism -- Liberalism: old and new: Herbert Spencer: Laissez faire (Social statics and Man versus the state) -- John Maynard Keynes: End of laissez faire -- General theory of employment, interest and money -- Revolutionary communism: Karl Marx: Economic and philosophical manuscripts -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist manifesto -- V.I. Lenin: Selected works -- Democratic socialism and the welfare state: Clement R. Atlee: Labour party in perspective -- Lord Lindsay of Birker: Philosophy of the British Labour government -- Hugh Gaitskell: Socialism and nationalism -- Gunnar Myrdal: Beyond the welfare state -- Freud: Civilization and its discontents -- Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud: Why war?