Uncommon Sense
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  • Amy Tan

    Fear enables power

  • Anthony J. Dennis

    Professional soldiers

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Which is the best government?

  • Albert Camus

    Integrity needs no rules

  • William E. Borah

    Submitting to burdens

  • Hubert H. Humphrey

    Free market for speech

  • Edward Abbey

    Be ready to defend your country

  • Thomas Sowell

    Self esteem instead of knowledge

  • Thomas Sowell

    Thrift vs. greed

  • Friedrich August von Hayek

    Private property

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    The will to be responsible

  • Amy Tan

    Make your own circumstances

  • American Bar Association

    Speech vs. violence

  • John Stuart Mill

    The individual is sovereign

  • Tony Heller

    Carbon dioxide and climate

  • Adlai E. Stevenson

    Anybody can be president

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Well done

  • Richard Lindzen

    Greatest mass delusion in the history of the world

  • Tony Heller

    Dooming civilization to failure

  • Richard Feynman

    Unscientific age

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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