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  • Andrei Sakharov

    Freedom of thought

  • Tom Clancy

    Reality vs. fiction

  • Mark Twain

    The fight in the dog

  • Hans Eysenck

    Might does not make right

  • Orson Scott Card

    Authority disallows reason

  • Darren Perkins

    America has been changing and not for the better

  • Zachariah Johnson

    The people are not to be disarmed

  • Abigail Adams

    Learning is not attained by chance

  • Adlai E. Stevenson

    My definition of a free society

  • A. J. P. Taylor

    Freedom does not always win

  • C. S. Lewis

    Who can endure these doctrines?

  • Francis Bacon

    Whatever exists deserves to be known

  • Donald J. Trump

    The concept of global warming

  • Robert A. Heinlein

    Limiting the freedom of news

  • Charles Darwin

    False facts

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

    Power is the prize

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Where liberty dwells

  • Winston Churchill

    Truth is incontrovertible

  • H. L. Mencken

    Thinking, logic, and facts

  • Eric Schaub

    Surrendering Constitutional rights

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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