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  • Plato

    Might vs. justice

  • Thomas Sowell

    Freedom is the absence of force

  • Chuck Schumer

    Illegal immigration is wrong

  • Hillary Clinton

    Clear message to illegal aliens

  • Hugo L. Black

    The Constitution is the benchmark

  • Milton Friedman

    The Harrison Bergeron effect

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Tenth Amendment

  • Calvin Coolidge

    Legislative priorities

  • Jim Goad

    White supremacy

  • William Henry Harrison

    The pretext of ‘necessity’

  • Charles Evans Hughes

    The pretext of ‘emergency’

  • Rick Gaber

    Economic power vs. political power

  • Roger Pilon

    The growth of the General Welfare and Commerce clauses

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Limits on general welfare

  • John C. Calhoun

    Built-in excess

  • Harry Browne

    Right-sizing government

  • Daniel Webster

    There is a difference

  • P. J. O'Rourke

    Source of affluence

  • Friedrich August von Hayek

    Progressive fascism

  • Thomas Sowell

    The Rolls Royce fallacy

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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