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  • Louis D. Brandeis

    Government is the teacher

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    Government education

  • William O. Douglas

    The function of the prosecutor

  • Hugo L. Black

    Freedom to publish

  • Thomas Sowell

    Freedom and the rule of law

  • Georges Bernanos

    First sign of societal corruption

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

    We should be eternally vigilant

  • Tucker Carlson

    Ensuring a country’s survival

  • U.S. vs. Dougherty

    Jury’s prerogative

  • Jerry Brown

    Decentralization is crucial

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Unconstitutional is invalid

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Classroom philosophies

  • Tucker Carlson

    Becoming the Third World

  • Hendrik van Loon

    Attacking ignorance

  • Charles Dickens

    Actions over words

  • Greg Raven

    Gun-free zones

  • James A. Garfield

    Gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system

  • William Rees-Mogg

    The value of paper money

  • Millard Fillmore Caldwell

    Do not blame Caesar

  • Sheldon Richman

    The remarkable F. A. Hayek

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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