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  • Edmund Burke

    The pretense of caring

  • Edmund Burke

    More power means more abuse of power

  • Edmund Burke

    How power corrodes

  • Thomas Sowell

    Better in every way

  • Ayn Rand

    Don’t conflate capitalism and corporatism

  • Edmund Randolph

    How to ensure your freedom

  • Edmund Burke

    Democracy’s problem

  • Thomas Sowell

    May sound good, but it doesn’t work

  • Walter E. Williams

    Manipulation through hate-crime hoaxes

  • Thomas Sowell

    Virtue signalling

  • Thomas Sowell

    Self-affirming negativity

  • Richard Henry Lee

    Ensure liberty by keeping government small

  • William P. Barr

    Totalitarian democracy

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Encouraged by inequality

  • Ayn Rand

    Property rights = freedom

  • Thomas Sowell

    It’s good to be the government

  • Adolf Hitler

    The big lie

  • Ann Coulter

    The standard crisis response

  • Herbert Spencer

    Don’t fear the truth

  • George Washington

    Traitors

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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