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  • 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

  • Daniel Webster

    Freedom from black-robed demagogues

  • George Washington

    American isolationism

  • Edmund Burke

    Past, present, and future

  • John Stuart Mill

    True freedom

  • Ludwig von Mises

    Avoiding barbarism

  • Walter Lippmann

    Free society

  • Thomas Sowell

    Real motives

  • Thomas Sowell

    What is a ‘fair share’?

  • William Henry Harrison

    Watch your ‘leaders’

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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