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  • Milton Friedman

    Power must be dispersed

  • Adam Smith

    Increasing prosperity

  • Thomas Sowell

    One honest man

  • James Madison

    Tyranny and oppression

  • Frank Zappa

    Socialism produces unhappiness

  • George Orwell

    Destroy people by destroying history

  • William Safire

    Never assume the obvious is true

  • Theodore Dalrymple

    Political correctness is communist propaganda

  • Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary

    Protected right to own and carry arms

  • Robert Dornan

    Gun rights are for securing independence

  • Tucker Carlson

    No longer free

  • Antonin Scalia

    Bill of Rights

  • John D. MacDonald

    Improper weights

  • Thomas Sowell

    Preferential treatment

  • Rand Paul

    Don’t trust a necessary evil

  • William Casey

    Everything you know is wrong

  • William Colby

    CIA owns everyone

  • Francis Bacon

    Don’t try to live on hope

  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    Hope and despair

  • Antonin Scalia

    No ‘interest-balancing’ rights

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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