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  • C. S. Lewis

    Science of tyrants

  • Brian Doherty

    Forced monopolies

  • Benjamin Harrison

    No commission to police the world

  • Benjamin A. Rooge

    Economic controls

  • Baruch Spinoza

    Prescribing speech

  • George Patton

    Object of war

  • Al Capone

    Kind word and a gun

  • H. L. Mencken

    Cynics are usually correct

  • Winston Churchill

    Optimist vs. pessimist

  • Mencius

    The behavior of the multitude

  • John Enoch Powell

    Personal responsibility

  • Alexander Hamilton

    State sovereignty

  • Paul ValĂ©ry

    Liberty is the hardest test

  • Thomas Sowell

    Shameless liars

  • James Angleton

    State deception

  • Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

    Bolsheviks were not Russians

  • Albert Szent-Gyorgi

    Discovery

  • Frederick Douglass

    Education fights slavery

  • Frederic Bastiat

    Laws and rights

  • James Fenimore Cooper

    Unrestrained authority

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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