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  • Thomas Jefferson

    When to dissolve your government

  • Winston Churchill

    Youth vs. experience

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Tyranny or liberty

  • Frederic Bastiat

    Expansion of the state

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Best exercise

  • James Madison

    Problems with a pure democracy

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    When to act

  • George Bernard Shaw

    What socialism means

  • William Graham Sumner

    The forgotten man

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    Responsibility

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    Perfection

  • Mark Twain

    Truth and fiction

  • Jerry Pournelle

    Consequences of PC

  • Mark Twain

    Censorship

  • Ann Coulter

    We must overcome ‘diversity’

  • Frederick Soddy

    Real wealth and virtual wealth

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Patriotism

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The general welfare

  • John Bryant

    Speak out against tyranny

  • Michael Parenti

    Perception gap

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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