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  • Thomas Sowell

    Dishonorable persons

  • Auberon Herbert

    Property rights

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Liberty trumps union

  • Henry David Thoreau

    Beyond democracy

  • Douglas MacArthur

    The forced march to mediocrity

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Secession

  • James Madison

    Separation of powers

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Real equality

  • Vox Day

    Cultural relativism

  • Samuel Adams

    People must be incorruptible

  • Auberon Herbert

    The tyranny of the majority

  • Thomas Jefferson

    People’s choice

  • Ambrose Bierce

    Defining ‘vote’

  • Amos Funkenstein

    Counter-history

  • Ayn Rand

    How to know your society is doomed

  • M. A. Jama

    African dictators

  • Voltaire

    Interpreting laws corrupts them

  • Paul Freda

    Taxation and tyranny

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Resistance to tyrants

  • Friedrich August von Hayek

    We used to be free

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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