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  • Albert Einstein

    Solving problems

  • Adam Smith

    Pursuing private interests

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Prohibition

  • Albert Einstein

    New manner of thinking

  • Adolf Hitler

    Lucky rulers

  • Aesop

    Learning from others

  • Alan Greenspan

    Gold is the ultimate

  • Albert Camus

    Freedom is not a gift

  • Aesop

    Aid to the enemy

  • George Orwell

    The goal of Newspeak

  • Aldous Huxley

    Propaganda’s purpose

  • Auberon Herbert

    Laissez-faire has not failed

  • Samuel Adams

    Liberty or servitude

  • Samuel Johnson

    Courage first

  • Albert Einstein

    Swimming against the stream

  • Samuel Johnson

    Truth through experience

  • H. L. Mencken

    Running the circus

  • Aldous Huxley

    Ye shall know the truth

  • Adam Smith

    Party above truth

  • H. L. Mencken

    Government vs. liberty

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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