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  • H. L. Mencken

    Getting what you deserve

  • H. L. Mencken

    Eat the others

  • H. L. Mencken

    Collective wisdom

  • Aldous Huxley

    Pharmacological brainwashing

  • Harry S. Truman

    Give ‘em hell

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Ancient truth

  • Thomas Sowell

    A jolt of Western civilization

  • Albert Einstein

    Think for yourself

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Public debt is our greatest enemy

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Debt overthrows public morality

  • Winston Churchill

    Unforgivable sin

  • Winston Churchill

    Imprisoning the unpopular

  • James Madison

    Enlightened free-market

  • Ronald Reagan

    Don’t disarm law-abiding citizens

  • Edmund Burke

    Defending their errors

  • William O. Douglas

    Most dangerous weapon

  • Adam Smith

    Mercy

  • Samuel Adams

    Life, liberty, and property

  • Victor Davis Hanson

    If you really wanted to destroy the U.S., then …

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    Those behind the scenes

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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