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  • Robert A. Heinlein

    Arms and politeness

  • Robert A. Heinlein

    Appeals to authority

  • Robert A. Heinlein

    Accidental insults

  • Samuel Adams

    Tireless minority

  • Herbert Spencer

    Taxes diminish freedom

  • Samuel Adams

    The rights of the people

  • Herbert Spencer

    Republican government

  • Samuel Adams

    Importance of morality

  • H. L. Mencken

    Honesty in government

  • George Bernard Shaw

    Economists

  • Herbert Spencer

    Civilization

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

    War and money

  • Frederic Bastiat

    State expense

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Stand for something

  • Barry Goldwater

    Reduce the size of government

  • Alexis de Tocqueville

    Principles in politics

  • H. L. Mencken

    Practical politics

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Power over men

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Not invented here

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Neutrality requires strength

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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