David Hume encourages politicians to put away their distrust of other countries, and allow free trade to flourish.

William Pitt the Elder berates Parliament for treating the public like know-nothings.

A meditation on our instinctive love for the place in which we live.

If freedom and democracy are to have any meaning, the public must be able to talk back to their governors.

Victorian MP Richard Cobden pleaded for Britain to set the world an example as a nation open for business.

An eccentric, self-made businesswoman, who ‘made three fortunes and spent five’ in the campaign against the death penalty.