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  • Thomas Jefferson

    The people must remain attentive

  • H. L. Mencken

    The most dangerous man

  • Thomas Babington Macaulay

    The destructiveness of democracy

  • Nancy Pelosi

    Protest is American

  • Nancy Pelosi

    Power to the people

  • Hillary Clinton

    Political debate is patriotic

  • Francis Wright

    Persecution for opinion

  • George Bernard Shaw

    On the value of being irritating

  • William O. Douglas

    Liberties guaranteed to citizens

  • George Mason

    Government must be for the common benefit

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Freedom of speech is the first to go

  • John Lindsay

    Freedom lost to ‘law and order’

  • George Orwell

    Doublethink

  • James Bryant Conant

    Diversity of opinion

  • Louis D. Brandeis

    Crime is contagious

  • Nancy Pelosi

    Contact your representatives

  • Ed Howdershelt

    The four boxes of liberty

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Government must be small

  • Ronald Reagan

    You know when you’ve been in office too long

  • Ronald Reagan

    Fourth of July

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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