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  • 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

  • James Madison

    Republican government

  • Alistair Cooke

    Vitality vs. decadance

  • Barbara Kay

    Knowledge based on evidence

  • Arthur S. Miller

    Our secret Establishment

  • Arthur Keith

    Diversity of beliefs

  • Armando Valladares

    From democracy to dictatorship

  • Archibald MacLeish

    Freedom to choose

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Craving after knowledge

  • Anthony J. Hilder

    Enslaving the people

  • Frank Chodorov

    Secessionist attitudes

  • Anne Bowen Poulin

    Jury nullification

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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