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  • Samuel Adams

    No right to arbitrary power

  • Frederic Bastiat

    Try liberty

  • Will Rogers

    Short memories

  • Sun Tzu

    The enemy within

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The Bill of Rights

  • Thomas Sowell

    Don’t use kids as guinea pigs

  • Thomas Sowell

    Too dangerous

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

    The need for unfettered freedom

  • James Madison

    The historical background of the Constitution

  • Bertrand Russell

    Education paradox

  • Ayn Rand

    Collectivism

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Socialism as slavery

  • Margaret Thatcher

    The society we want

  • John Adams

    Preserving liberty through knowledge

  • George Orwell

    Ruling through fraud and force

  • Albert Camus

    Freedom is not a reward

  • Linda Bowles

    Government expands at will

  • Walter E. Williams

    Collective immorality

  • Thomas Sowell

    A dangerous sign of the times

  • Benjamin Franklin

    The cause of all mankind

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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