Uncommon Sense
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  • Aldous Huxley

    Ministries of propaganda

  • Jefferson Davis

    Majority rule

  • Dave Wilber

    Foreign wars

  • George Washington

    Firearms and the Constitution

  • Arthur Goddard

    How the few plunder the many

  • Mark Twain

    Easier to fool people

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Despotism vs. liberty

  • George Washington

    Armed and ready

  • Pablo Casals

    Degraded society

  • Chester W. Nimitz

    Don’t give up when you’re right

  • Blaise Pascal

    Measuring a man’s virtue

  • Walter E. Williams

    Black and White Standards

  • Noël Coward

    Honesty and deceit

  • P. D. Ouspensky

    The criminal state

  • Winston Churchill

    Stumbling over the truth

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Power tests character

  • Neal Boortz

    Why can’t government cut back?

  • Dean William Ralph Inge

    Bureaucracy cannot tolerate individuals

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

    Free competition

  • Milton Friedman

    Drug laws

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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