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  • Thomas Jefferson

    A near-perfect republic

  • Samuel Adams

    Natural rights of the colonists

  • Steve Biko

    Most potent weapon of oppression

  • William F. Buckley

    Fewer laws, stronger mores

  • Amos v. Mosley

    Misinterpreting the Constitution

  • John F. Kennedy

    Liberty and learning

  • Jon Roland

    Test for a police state

  • Charley Reese

    Acquitting the unjustly accused

  • Mike Robbins

    Jury nullification

  • Francis Bellamy

    I pledge allegiance

  • 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

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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