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  • George Washington

    Political factions

  • Rose Wilder Lane

    Constitutional law

  • Ron Paul

    Promote goodness

  • H. L. Mencken

    Think for yourself

  • H. L. Mencken

    Mob democracy

  • John Philpot Curran

    Eternal vigilence

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

    Remaining always a child

  • Ronald Reagan

    Education today

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Good and safe government

  • Daniel Webster

    Laws vs. despotism

  • Ron Paul

    Unlimited and unconstitutional

  • Thomas Sowell

    Their ideas don’t work

  • H. L. Mencken

    Simple and wrong

  • Thomas Sowell

    Rising temperatures

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Squabbling nationalities

  • Edward R. Murrow

    Press v. public

  • James Madison

    States are sovereign bodies

  • Winston Churchill

    Study your past

  • Ayn Rand

    The two causes for progress

  • Grover Cleveland

    No Constitutional warrant for welfare

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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