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  • anonymous

    Worse than government

  • William O. Douglas

    Why we need the Constitution

  • William Howard Taft

    Liberty and property

  • John Locke

    Government must protect property

  • James Madison

    Charity is not a duty of government

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The FDA as tyranny

  • Milton Friedman

    Our currency determines our fate

  • Henry David Thoreau

    Location, location, location

  • Milton Friedman

    Destructive power of inflation

  • Patrick J. Buchanan

    Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas

  • Patrick J. Buchanan

    Dealing with invaders

  • Bertrand Russell

    Freedom of opinion

  • Ronald Reagan

    Terrifying words

  • Lord Acton

    Secrecy

  • anonymous

    Power vs. liberty

  • Lord Acton

    Power corrupts

  • Merrill Jenkins

    The unaware

  • Voltaire

    It’s dangerous to be correct

  • anonymous

    Ignorance begets ignorance

  • Walter E. Williams

    Why most Americans love government

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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