Uncommon Sense
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  • 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

  • Alexander Hamilton

    States’ rights

  • Alan Keyes

    Judge carefully and well

  • G. Edward Griffin

    Constitutional communism

  • Abigail Adams

    Too many high-sounding words

  • Adlai E. Stevenson

    Freedom rings

  • Alan Keyes

    Character

  • Clarence Thomas

    The zero-sum nature of college admissions

  • Clarence Thomas

    Today’s youth not responsible for segregation

  • Clarence Thomas

    Two wrongs cannot make a right

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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