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  • Thomas Sowell

    Beware the cure

  • E. B. White

    The fallacy of democracy

  • Gregory Christainsen

    Making the best use of knowledge

  • Dennis Prager

    Gratitude vs. entitlement

  • Clemens von Metternich

    Adminicles

  • Josef Stalin

    Social democracy and fascism

  • John Milton

    The importance of language

  • William Godwin

    More government = less humanity

  • Gore Vidal

    Decadent language

  • Socrates

    False words

  • Smedley D. Butler

    War is a racket

  • Smedley D. Butler

    Just wars

  • Thomas Sowell

    Take off the mask

  • P. J. O'Rourke

    Politics and government

  • Ayn Rand

    More laws for more control

  • Thomas Sowell

    Is reality optional?

  • Thomas Paine

    The problem of governments

  • Will Rogers

    If only they never did anything

  • L. A. Powe Jr.

    The purpose of the Bill of Rights

  • Sallust

    Slavery for the masses

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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