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  • Confucius

    Real knowledge

  • John Philpot Curran

    Eternal Vigilance

  • Daniel Webster

    Succession

  • Anne Bowen Poulin

    Power of nullification

  • Archibald MacLeish

    Dissenters

  • Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi

    Currency is a new form of slavery

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton

    Theory of free speech

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Judging character

  • Thomas Sowell

    End disastrous policies, period

  • James Madison

    The eyes of the world are upon us

  • Thomas Sowell

    Tell them the truth

  • Michael Crichton

    Consensus isn’t science

  • Paul Bede Johnson

    Antidote to arrogance

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

    We are taxed on everything

  • John Hayward

    No duty to their constituents

  • Buddha

    Guiding principle

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Invisible empire

  • Blaise Pascal

    Might becomes right

  • Bertrand Russell

    Reluctantly forced to war

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    Truth travels slowly

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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