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  • H. L. Mencken

    Truth needs no law

  • Friedrich August von Hayek

    The greatest danger to liberty

  • Frank Chodorov

    The cost of socialism

  • John Stuart Mill

    Sheepthink

  • Bertrand de Jouvenel

    Sheep and wolves

  • Milton Friedman

    Equality vs. freedom

  • Greg Raven

    Cheaper than ever

  • Ludwig von Mises

    Western civilization vs. the others

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Man exists for himself

  • Ben Kinchlow

    If white America were racist

  • Henry David Thoreau

    Beware the do-gooder

  • P. J. O'Rourke

    The core of liberalism

  • José Ortega y Gasset

    The danger of state intervention

  • Herbert Spencer

    Socialism involves slavery

  • Isaiah Berlin

    Humans as objects of the state

  • Herbert Spencer

    It’s the result, not the intention

  • George Orwell

    Why we have wars

  • George Orwell

    Truth vs. lies

  • George Orwell

    Truth can be revolutionary

  • Auberon Herbert

    Secular religion

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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