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  • Mencius

    The behavior of the multitude

  • John Enoch Powell

    Personal responsibility

  • Alexander Hamilton

    State sovereignty

  • Paul ValĂ©ry

    Liberty is the hardest test

  • Thomas Sowell

    Shameless liars

  • James Angleton

    State deception

  • Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

    Bolsheviks were not Russians

  • Albert Szent-Gyorgi

    Discovery

  • Frederick Douglass

    Education fights slavery

  • Frederic Bastiat

    Laws and rights

  • James Fenimore Cooper

    Unrestrained authority

  • 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

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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