Uncommon Sense
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  • Arthur Keith

    Divergence of beliefs

  • Thomas Paine

    Governing by force and fraud

  • James A. Garfield

    Controlling the volume of money

  • J. P. Morgan

    People without homes will not quarrel

  • Mark Twain

    Intellects or imbeciles

  • Thomas Paine

    The fuel of liberty

  • Louis D. Brandeis

    The most important political office

  • J. C. Watts Jr.

    Trying to erase poverty

  • Bellamy Brooks

    Egotism

  • Baruch Spinoza

    Laws against opinions

  • Thomas Sowell

    One generation of the welfare state

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Basic upper education

  • James Madison

    Persons and property

  • William Graham Sumner

    Control no others

  • Thomas Paine

    Wants and wickedness

  • Aristotle

    The mark of education

  • Robert H. Jackson

    The priceless heritage of our society

  • Alistair Cooke

    From liberty to tyranny

  • Thomas Paine

    The trade of governing

  • Thomas Jefferson

    All wealth starts on the farm

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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