Cato's Letters were essays by British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, first published from 1720 to 1723 under the pseudonym of Cato (95–46 BC), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a famously stubborn champion of republican principles.
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Cato's Letter No. 5: A further Call for Vengeance upon the South-Sea Plunderers; with a Caution against false Patriots
Cato's Letter No. 6: How easily the People are bubbled by Deceivers. Further Caution against deceitful Remedies for the publick Sufferings from the wicked Execution of the South-Sea Scheme
Cato's Letter No. 8: The Arts of able guilty Ministers to save themselves. The wise and popular Conduct of Queen Elizabeth towards publick Harpies; with the Application
Cato's Letter No. 9: Against the projected Union of the Three Great Companies; and against remitting to the South-Sea Company any Part of their Debt to the Publick
Cato's Letter No. 10: The Iniquity of late and new Projects about the South-Sea considered. How fatally they affect the Publick
Cato's Letter No. 11: The Justice and Necessity of punishing great Crimes, though committed against no subsisting Law of the State
Cato's Letter No. 12: Of Treason: All Treasons not to be found in Statutes. The Right of the Legislature to declare Treasons
Cato's Letter No. 14: The unhappy State of despotick Princes, compared with the happy Lot of such as rule by settled Laws. How the latter, by abusing their Trust, may forfeit their Crown
Cato's Letter No. 15: Of Freedom of Speech: That the same is inseparable from publick Liberty
Cato's Letter No. 16: The Leaders of Parties, their usual Views. Advice to all Parties to be no longer misled
Cato's Letter No. 17: What Measures are actually taken by wicked and desperate Ministers to ruin and enslave their Country
Cato's Letter No. 18: The terrible Tendency of publick Corruption to ruin a State, exemplified in that of Rome, and applied to our own
Cato's Letter No. 19: The Force of popular Affection and Antipathy to particular Men. How powerfully it operates, and how far to be regarded
Cato's Letter No. 20: Of publick Justice, how necessary to the Security and Well-being of a State, and how destructive the Neglect of it to the British Nation. Signal Instances of it
Cato's Letter No. 21: A Letter from John Ketch, Esq. asserting his Right to the Necks of the overgrown Brokers.
Cato's Letter No. 22: The Judgment of the People generally sound, where not misled. With the Importance and Probability of bringing over Mr. Knight.
Cato's Letter No. 23: A memorable Letter from Brutus to Cicero, with an explanatory Introduction.
Cato's Letter No. 24: Of the natural Honesty of the People, and their reasonable Demands. How important it is to every Government to consult their Affections and Interest.
Cato's Letter No. 25: Considerations on the destructive Spirit of arbitrary Power. With the Blessings of Liberty, and our own Constitution.
Cato's Letter No. 26: The sad Effects of general Corruption, quoted from Algernon Sidney, Esq.
Cato's Letter No. 27: General Corruption, how ominous to the Publick, and how discouraging to every virtuous Man. With its fatal Progress whenever encouraged.
Cato's Letter No. 52: Of Divine Judgments; the Wickedness and Absurdity of applying them to Men and Events.
Cato's Letter No. 53: Dr. Prideaux's Reasoning about the Death of Cambyses, examined; whether the same was a Judgment for his killing the Egyptian God Apis.
Cato's Letter No. 54: The Reasoning of Dr. Prideaux about the Fate of Brennus the Gaul, and of his Followers, examined; whether the same was a Judgment for an Intention to plunder the Temple of Delphos.
Cato's Letter No. 55: The Lawfulness of killing Julius Caesar considered, and defended, against Dr. Prideaux.
Cato's Letter No. 58: Letter from a Lady, with an Answer, about Love, Marriage, and Settlements.
Cato's Letter No. 59: Liberty proved to be the unalienable Right of all Mankind.
Cato's Letter No. 60: All Government proved to be instituted by Men, and only to intend the general Good of Men.
Cato's Letter No. 61: How free Governments are to be framed so as to last, and how they differ from such as are arbitrary.
Cato's Letter No. 62: An Enquiry into the Nature and Extent of Liberty; with its Loveliness and Advantages, and the vile Effects of Slavery.
Cato's Letter No. 63: Civil Liberty produces all Civil Blessings, and how; with the baneful Nature of Tyranny.
Cato's Letter No. 64: Trade and Naval Power the Offspring of Civil Liberty, and cannot subsist without it.
Cato's Letter No. 65: Military Virtue produced and supported by Civil Liberty only.
Cato's Letter No. 66: Arbitrary Government proved incompatible with true Religion, whether Natural or Revealed..
Cato's Letter No. 67: Arts and Sciences the Effects of Civil Liberty only, and ever destroyed or oppressed by Tyranny.
Cato's Letter No. 68: Property and Commerce secure in a free Government only; with the consuming Miseries under simple Monarchies.
Cato's Letter No. 69: Address to the Freeholders, &c. about the Choice of their Representatives.
Cato's Letter No. 70: Second Address to the Freeholders, &c. upon the same Subject.
Cato's Letter No. 71: Polite Arts and Learning naturally produced in free States, and marred by such as are not free.
Cato's Letter No. 72: In absolute Monarchies the Monarch seldom rules, but his Creatures instead of him. That Sort of Government a Gradation of Tyrants.
Cato's Letter No. 73: A Display of Tyranny, its destructive Nature, and Tendency to dispeople the Earth.
Cato's Letter No. 74: The Vanity of Conquerors, and the Calamities attending Conquests.
Cato's Letter No. 75: Of the Restraints which ought to be laid upon publick Rulers.
Cato's Letter No. 96: Of Parties in England; how they vary, and interchange Characters, just as they are in Power, or out of it, yet still keep their former Names.
Cato's Letter No. 97: How much it is the Interest of Governors to use the Governed well; with an Enquiry into the Causes of Disaffection in England.
Cato's Letter No. 112: Fondness for Posterity nothing else but Self-love. Such as are Friends to publick Liberty, are the only true Lovers of Posterity.
Cato's Letter No. 113: Letter to Cato, concerning his many Adversaries and Answerers.
Cato's Letter No. 114: The necessary Decay of Popish States strewn from the Nature of the Popish Religion.
Cato's Letter No. 115: The encroaching Nature of Power, ever to be watched and checked.
Cato's Letter No. 116: That whatever moves and acts, does so mechanically and necessarily.
Cato's Letter No. 117: Of the Abuse of Words, applied more particularly to the covetous Man and the Bigot.
Cato's Letter No. 118: Free States vindicated from the common Imputation of Ingratitude.
Additional Letter of Cato No. 1: That ambitious Princes rule and conquer only for their own Sakes; illustrated in a Dialogue between Alexander the Great and a Persian.
