Thomas Gordon
? - 1750
Titles on this disk:
- author: Cato’s Letters, vol. 1 November 5, 1720 to June 17, 1721 (LF ed.)
- author: Cato’s Letters, vol. 2 June 24, 1721 to March 3, 1722 (LF ed.)
- author: Cato’s Letters, vol. 3 March 10, 1722 to December 1, 1722 (LF ed.)
- author: Cato’s Letters, vol. 4 December 8, 1722 to December 7, 1723 (LF ed.)
- author: A Discourse of Standing Armies; shewing the Folly, Uselessness, and Danger of Standing Armies in Great Britain
- author: An Essay on Government
- editor: The Works of Tacitus, vol. 1 (Gordon’s Discourses, Annals (Books 1-3))
- editor: The Works of Tacitus, vol. 3 (Gordon’s Discourses II, History (Books 1-2))
Quotations:
- (5 November, 2007) Thomas Gordon on standing armies as a power which is inconsistent with liberty (1722)
- (21 November, 2005) Thomas Gordon gives a long list of ridiculous and frivolous reasons why kings and tyrants have started wars which have led only to the enslavement and destruction of their own people (1737)
- (18 October, 2004) Thomas Gordon believes that bigoted Princes are subject to the “blind control” of other “Directors and Masters” who work behind the scenes (1737)
- (7 April, 2004) Thomas Gordon compares the Greatness of Spartacus with that of Julius Caesar (1721)
About this person:
John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon were two indefatigable English journalists who defended the idea of liberty against political corruption, imperialism and militarism in the early 18th century. They were also much read in the American colonies.