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  • Thomas Paine

    Support freedom

  • George Washington

    Religion and morality

  • George Washington

    Occupants of public offices

  • George Washington

    Let experience solve it

  • Winston Churchill

    Keep up the fight

  • H. L. Mencken

    Governments preserve by hobbling

  • Alvin Toffler

    Those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn

  • Alice Walker

    Giving up your power

  • Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

    Liberty of the individual

  • Alexander Haig

    Loss of candor is grievous

  • Albert Gallatin

    Unalienable rights

  • Alan Bullock

    The true object of propaganda

  • Alan Bloom

    Freedom of the mind

  • Thomas Sowell

    Redistributing poverty

  • Thomas Paine

    How people constitute a government

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Educate to preserve liberty

  • James Madison

    The delegation public views

  • Alistair Cooke

    Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline

  • William Randolph Hearst

    Any man can be a radical

  • George Washington

    Avoid debt

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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