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  • James M. Buchanan

    Economics

  • William O. Douglas

    Political correctness vs. free inquiry

  • Phillip J. Birmingham

    Good cop, bad cop

  • Talleyrand

    Rebranding

  • Axel Oxenstierna

    Our leaders

  • Darren Perkins

    Freedom giving way to control

  • John Adams

    How to make the Constitution work again

  • Daniel Hannan

    Honor thy Founding Father

  • Ted Nugent

    Doing the right thing

  • Harry Browne

    Delayed misery

  • Bob Emmers

    Government doesn’t solve problems

  • Richard A. Epstein

    Unlimited government

  • H. L. Mencken

    Admiring liars

  • Confucius

    Right vs. popular

  • Trevor Burrus

    Rent control

  • Steve Symms

    Only the rich have property rights

  • Joe Sobran

    The Federal clique

  • Étienne de la Boétie

    Stay free

  • John Stuart Mill

    Preventing force and fraud

  • Edward H. Crane

    Coercion vs. voluntarism

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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