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  • Alexander Hamilton

    Enthusiasm in liberty

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Diversity of enterprise for the wealth of a nation

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Repeal welfare laws

  • Benno Schmidt

    Campus freedom

  • P. J. O'Rourke

    We’ve been nice to the liberals for too long

  • Thomas Sowell

    Often wrong

  • Ron Paul

    Greatest threat to America today

  • Rick Santelli

    Watch what gold is doing

  • Walter Bagehot

    Bank bail-outs

  • Alan Greenspan

    Gold and freedom

  • R. H. Tawney

    Government borrowing

  • Milton Friedman

    Deepening the Great Depression

  • Walter Wriston

    Three forms of capital

  • Winston Churchill

    Private enterprise

  • Adam Smith

    Natural progress

  • Adam Smith

    The failure of rigid central planning

  • John Adams

    The danger of direct democracy

  • John F. Kennedy

    Secrecy in government

  • George Washington

    Despotism through consolidation of power

  • Upton Sinclair

    Wage slaves

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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