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  • Alan Greenspan

    Welfare state vs. property rights

  • George Bernard Shaw

    Inflation betrays creditors

  • John Stuart Mill

    The damage is already done

  • Ludwig von Mises

    Government is the opposite of liberty

  • Paul Volcker

    Central banks have the power to destroy

  • Thomas Paine

    The need for self-defense

  • Jeffrey R. Snyder

    Disarmed citizens are servants

  • Jacob G. Hornberger

    Gun owners are patriots

  • Markus T. Funk

    ‘Gun control’ and murder

  • Joe Sobran

    Communism and socialism

  • Bernard J. Bordonet

    A right of the individual

  • Tom Minnery

    Compassion

  • Ezra Pound

    False dichotomy

  • John Adams

    How to conquer and enslave

  • Friedrich August von Hayek

    Voting for tyranny

  • Ravi Zacharias

    Private morals and public office

  • Aesop

    Thieves petty and great

  • Georges Ripert

    The tyranny of the law

  • Ronald Reagan

    Parliament of whores

  • Anatole France

    Even if everybody knows …

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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