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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is an essay by American author Henry David Thoreau and was first published in 1849 with the title of Resistance to Civil Government.  Thoreau sets for an argument that permit governments to rule or degrade their consciences, otherwise the government forces one to become an agent of injustice.  Thoreau was motivated by his opposition to slavery and with the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

Sun Tzu (also rendered as Sun Zi) was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and Eastern philosophy. Aside from his legacy as the author of The Art of War, Sun Tzu is revered in Chinese and the Culture of Asia as a legendary historical figure. His birth name was Sun Wu, and he was known outside of his family by his courtesy name Changqing. The name Sun Tzu by which he is...

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist, NiccolO Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but -long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings-. Although it was written as...