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  • 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

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Systematically making us slaves

  • Abraham Lincoln

    The people are the rightful masters

  • Albert Einstein

    Safety third

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Put up or shut up

  • D. H. Lawrence

    From slavery to liberty to slavery in three generations

  • Herbert Hoover

    Speak without fear

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Prison or liberty

  • Aristotle

    The importance of law and justice

  • Daniel Webster

    Government must be just

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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