[fortunate sun]

What has influenced you? Thanks

[anniegetyourgun]

Nothing more profoundly than The Holy Bible.

[Larry Lucido]

The Bible

Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead

Modern Times

[dynachrome]

The Bible

Atlas Shrugged

Unintended Consequences

[Just another Joe]

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis.

[GOPJ]

Liberals will use lists like this against us - guess that’s the price of being honest and open.

[Dog Gone]

Who died in the wool?

[oblomov]

Hayek, Mencken, Robert Nisbet, WF Buckley, Nozick, Garet Garrett, Paul Johnson...

[DYngbld]

The Bible
Wild at Heart (John Eldredge)
Waking the Dead (John Eldredge)
Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers)
The US Constitution (I carry a copy in my pocket)

[Our man in washington]

“Vision of the Annointed” by Thomas Sowell
“Knowledge and Decisions” by Thomas Sowell
“Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl
“The Demoralization of Society” by Gertrude Himmelfarb
“Radical Son” by David Horowitz
“Out of America: a Black Man Confronts Africa” by Keith Richburg

[allmost]

The Bible, every version. Isaac Asimov, Einstein in his own words, speculators online ;) etc...

[Dr. Sivana]

1984, Pickwick Papers, Animal Farm, The Gulag Archipelago, The Everlasting Man, Bleak House, Brave New World, Crime and Punishment

[DieHard the Hunter]

You raise an interesting point. Perhaps there should be a suggested reading list. In my case:

The Holy Bible
“The Prince” and “The Republic”, both by Machiavelli
“Flatland” by Edwin Abbott Abbott
“The Second World War” in 6 Volumes by Churchill
“The Art of War” by Sun Tsu

as well several Freemasonic books of no interest to non-Masons.

[Yo-Yo]

The Bible

Atlas Shrugged

Animal Farm

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (and various other Heinlein books)

[raybbr]

“Unconditional Life” by Deepak Chopra.

Walt Whitman

“AA” otherwise known as the “Big Book”.

The Gospels.

Dashiell Hammett’s books, Raymond Chandler’s books. Fiction, yes but the main character has all of the traits of independence, rational thinking and morals that a conservative strives for.

[enduserindy]

The Law by Frederick Bastiat

http://www.lexrex.com/informed/otherdocuments/thelaw/main.htm

[Pessimist]

The Road to Serfdom by Hayek

[lovecraft]

The Bible, Atlas Shrugged.

But one that had the most profound effect on me in regards to conservatism/libertarianism....was Heinlein's Starship Troopers. I've read it 6 times and has been the only book I've read cover to cover in a 24hr period. Just me I guess.

[DBrow]

The Bible

The US Constitution (I carry a Cato pocket-size)

1984

Brave New World

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein

Revile for Radicals Alinsky

Rules for Radicals Alinsky

The Port Huron Statement Tom Hayden

Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky

A Canticle for Liebowitz Walter Miller

Day of the Triffids Wyndham

Farenheit 451

Atlas Shrugged

[fortunate sun]

Bible - Luke 7:2-10, Find a better example of “Faith is Power”.

Slouching Towards Gomorrah - Robert H. Bork, it was my political Rorschach ink blot

Blade Runner - movie —

[gigster]

The Federalist Papers
Capitalism and Freedom-Milton Friedman
Any Thomas Sowell,and Walter Williams
The Road To Serfdom-F.A. Hayek (Reading it now.)
The Gulag Archipelago-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsen
Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand
The Ominous Parallels-Leonard Peikoff (The Heir to Ayn Rand.
Dr.Peikoff was one of my teachers.)
The Government Against The Economy-George Reisman (another former teacher)(Recommended by F.A. Hayek,William E. Simon,and Henry Hazlitt.)
Oh,yeah,and Henry Hazlitt