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  • Benjamin Franklin

    Orators

  • James Madison

    Oppression by unequal taxes

  • Will Rogers

    Not jokes, but facts

  • Mark Twain

    Newspapers

  • Thomas Jefferson

    More dangerous than standing armies

  • Aristotle

    Majority vs. minority

  • James Madison

    Loss of liberty

  • John Adams

    Liberty lost

  • G. Gordon Liddy

    Liberal spending

  • anonymous

    Let’s eat

  • Lord Kelvin

    Knowledge

  • Samuel Adams

    Knowledge and virtue

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Keep rebellion alive

  • Mark Twain

    Jeopardy

  • George Washington

    Informed public

  • Mark Twain

    Idiotic members of Congress

  • Winston Churchill

    Idealism

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

    How to run Rome

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Happiness lies in avoiding socialism

  • Ronald Reagan

    Government’s view of the economy

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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