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  • Samuel Johnson

    True character

  • P. J. O'Rourke

    Democracies are not permanent

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Power is not alluring

  • Milton Friedman

    Hell hath no fury

  • Ayn Rand

    Constitutional limits

  • anonymous

    Campaign finance

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The need to be well-informed

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Taking action for liberty

  • Ronald Reagan

    Freedom does not come from government

  • Ronald Reagan

    Efficiency of the private sector

  • Ronald Reagan

    As government expands, liberty contracts

  • Carl Jung

    laws

  • Calvin Coolidge

    Take control of government

  • anonymous

    The right to bear arms

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Swords and plowshares

  • John Adams

    Liberty vs. security

  • anonymous

    Citizen vs. subject

  • C. S. Lewis

    The tyrant’s plea

  • C. Wright Mills

    The opportunity for choice

  • C. S. Lewis

    Civilizations fall

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” — George Jacob Holyoake