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  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Complete education

  • Eric Hoffer

    Invisible truths

  • Daniel Webster

    Freedom and restraint

  • Michael F. Scheuer

    Our current madness

  • Barack Hussein Obama

    Limits on presidential power

  • Benjamin Franklin

    A life worth living

  • Edmund Burke

    Addicted to power

  • Vladimir Putin

    Protecting the future

  • Abraham Lincoln

    The Constitution protects minorities

  • Bertrand Russell

    The root of democracy

  • L. Neil Smith

    Democracy equals brute force

  • Margaret Thatcher

    Power to the people?

  • William Graham Sumner

    Zero-sum socialism

  • William Graham Sumner

    What government must to do be considered legitimate

  • William Graham Sumner

    Tunnel vision

  • William Graham Sumner

    True justice depends on true liberty

  • William Graham Sumner

    True equality

  • Aristotle

    The greatest inequality

  • William Graham Sumner

    Stop penalizing the productive

  • William Graham Sumner

    Selective improvement

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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