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  • 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

  • H. L. Mencken

    All government is evil

  • John Quincy Adams

    Appreciate what you’ve been given

  • Thomas Sowell

    Education has been replaced by ideological indoctrination

  • Ted Nugent

    Only the pathetic cannot defend themselves

  • P. J. O'Rourke

    Government waste

  • Donald J. Trump

    America first

  • Charles A. Lindbergh Sr.

    A radical

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Hear both sides

  • James Madison

    Freedom of the press

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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