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  • 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

  • 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

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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