Uncommon Sense
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Think for yourself

  • Edmund Burke

    The squeaky wheels

  • Spike Cohen

    The creation of ISIS

  • Dennis Prager

    Capitalism vs. socialism

  • Jack Carr

    Fight big government

  • James Madison

    The prime function of government

  • Daniel Webster

    Property rights are foundational

  • Auberon Herbert

    Liberty vs. force

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Take nothing for granted

  • W. E. B. Du Bois

    Concentration of powers

  • William O. Douglas

    They are supposed to work for us

  • Tammy Bruce

    Seductions of power

  • Isaiah Berlin

    Thought control and conditioning

  • anonymous

    The bigger the front, the bigger the back

  • Thomas Sowell

    Confession

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Danger: Government at work

  • George Orwell

    Perpetual war

  • Samuel Adams

    From servants to masters

  • Samuel Adams

    Free men or drudges?

  • Greg Raven

    A peek into the future

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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