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  • C. P. Snow

    No man is to be trusted with power

  • Butler D. Shaffer

    Fearing responsibility

  • John Adams

    Public affairs

  • Randall Parker

    Muslim multiculturalism

  • Buddha

    Be your own light

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Hard work

  • Boston Federal Reserve Bank

    Creating money out of thin air

  • Booker T. Washington

    Truth, right, and good

  • Black's Law Dictionary, 3rd Edition

    Defining ‘militia’

  • Bertrand Russell

    Eccentric opinions

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Jesus of Nazareth

  • Benjamin Constant

    Corrupting laws

  • Ingrid Bergman

    Happiness

  • Bertrand Russell

    Wisdom and certainty

  • anonymous

    Wisdom and age

  • Tacitus

    Observing state corruption

  • Auberon Herbert

    The myth of limitless government

  • Robert A. Heinlein

    Preparedness

  • James Madison

    Trustworthiness of government

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Benefits of rebellion

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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