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  • U. S. Supreme Court

    Law above democracy

  • C. S. Lewis

    Girly men

  • Vox Day

    What is the Alt-right?

  • H. L. Mencken

    I believe in only one thing

  • P. J. O'Rourke

    Government control

  • James Madison

    Protection of property

  • John Milton

    Freedom of speech is paramount

  • Walter Lippmann

    Our Bill of Rights

  • Henry Steele Commager

    Justifying freedom of speech

  • George Washington

    If we lose free speech

  • Thomas Babington Macaulay

    Finding the right answer

  • John Adams

    Why study politics and war

  • John Adams

    Hard times create strong men

  • Ted Cruz

    Gun rights are fundamental to our liberty

  • Lord Acton

    Liberty is the highest political end

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Rightful liberty

  • Albert Einstein

    Blind belief in authority

  • John Adams

    Jaws of power

  • Albert Einstein

    Curb your shame

  • Samuel Adams

    Congress is not authorized

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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