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  • Benjamin Franklin

    Trading liberty for safety

  • Alexis de Tocqueville

    The logic of the Constitution in two sentences

  • Joe Sobran

    Our government is above the law

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The most sacred duty of government

  • Will Rogers

    Too bad it’s not our money

  • James Madison

    Why leaders go to war

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Wealth transfer means the death of freedom

  • Pericles

    Watch out!

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Virtue is not hereditary

  • John Adams

    Useless men

  • James Madison

    Unlimited government

  • James Madison

    Tyranny and oppression

  • Ron Paul

    Truth

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Too much government is bad

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The tree of liberty

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The sin of subsidies

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The role of government

  • Margaret Thatcher

    The problem with socialism

  • George Washington

    The power of the free man

  • Frederic Bastiat

    The fiction of 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