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  • Thomas Jefferson

    Uniformity

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Being successful in America

  • Larry P. Arnn

    A more American conservatism

  • Sam Gerard

    Weapon of choice

  • Leo Tolstoy

    Preconceived notions

  • Donald J. Trump

    The threat to the American Dream

  • Donald J. Trump

    Social Security Trust Fund

  • Donald J. Trump

    Capitalism vs. bureaucracy

  • Francis Bacon

    A certain spark of truth

  • William O. Douglas

    Douglas on the First Amendment

  • Thomas Sowell

    Authority and responsibility

  • Paul Harvey

    Because not everyone likes prison

  • Robert A. Heinlein

    The importance of manners

  • Robert A. Heinlein

    Arms and the man

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Damaging effect of vote fraud

  • Harry Browne

    Liberty and the press

  • George Orwell

    Hating the truth

  • Voltaire

    Skepticism needed

  • Charles de Montesquieu

    Appropriate form of government

  • Albert Camus

    Crimes of ego

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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