Cato Letters

The Cato Letters were a collection of essays written by two 18th century Englishmen, John Trenchard and Tomas Gordon. The essays condemned government tyranny and called for the advancement of civil liberty's with lower government intervention. The letters reflect many of the views held by todays Libertarian.

To conceal there identities the authors used the Roman statesman, Cato the Younger, as an alias[1]. All 144 essays were published between 1720-1723; and in 1775, a two-volume modernized sixth edition of the Cato's Letters was printed in London. Many historians see these letters as the foundation of the philosophical foundation of the American Revolution. A public policy research organization founded in 1975, the CATO Institution, was named after the letters[2].