Uncommon Sense
Search
  • Robert Welch

    Freedom and responsibility

  • Walter E. Williams

    Freedom of speech and association

  • Lord Monckton

    Fight for Western values

  • Adam Smith

    Self governance

  • Joseph Story

    Why republics fall

  • James Madison

    Why a republic?

  • Edmund Randolph

    The ills of democracy

  • Hans L. Eicholz

    The basis for republicanism

  • Eric Hoffer

    Power demands submission

  • Lysander Spooner

    Minority rights

  • Westbrook Pegler

    Long live the republic

  • Margaret Thatcher

    Founded on liberty

  • Plato

    Democracy’s inevitable end

  • Lyn Nofziger

    These things I believe

  • Andrew Jackson

    The law of the land

  • L. Neil Smith

    Choosing serfdom

  • John C. Calhoun

    The tyranny of majority rule

  • Kentucky Declaration of Rights

    The primacy of the individual

  • Wyoming Declaration of Rights

    Absolute power does not exist

  • Fisher Ames

    A republic, not a democracy

  • 70
  • 71
  • 72

Pithy sayings and brilliant observations.

  • Quotes by author
  • Quotes by topic
  • Search

“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