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  • Frederic Bastiat

    Natural rights

  • Frederic Bastiat

    Life, liberty, and property

  • Benjamin Franklin

    I want liberty

  • Aristotle

    Arms control

  • Ayn Rand

    Government is a threat

  • Barry Goldwater

    The equality of our Founding Fathers

  • Alexis de Tocqueville

    Equal in slavery

  • Alexis de Tocqueville

    Democracy and taxes

  • Cullen Hightower

    Compound interest

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

    Brevity and eloquence

  • Barry Goldwater

    Border problem

  • Barry Goldwater

    Big government

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Be firm

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

    Ability and honor

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Too much liberty vs. too little

  • James Madison

    Government obligations to constituents

  • James Madison

    Overbearing majority

  • John Adams

    Democracy never lasts long

  • Ronald Reagan

    Freedom

  • Barry Goldwater

    Extremism and moderation

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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