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  • Thomas Jefferson

    Monetary prudence

  • John OSullivan'

    Escaping ‘utopia’

  • Daniel Webster

    Inherent right of the people

  • Harry Browne

    Absolute rights

  • Leon Uris

    Terrorism vs. war

  • Michael Parenti

    Insinuated tyranny

  • Mark Twain

    Defining patriotism

  • Herbert Hoover

    Collectivist emergencies

  • Albert Camus

    The alibi of tyrants

  • Neal Boortz

    Teaching skepticism

  • James Madison

    Legislative growth

  • Edmund Burke

    Equal rights

  • George S. Boutwell

    Empire abroad means repression at home

  • John Calvin Thomas

    Subsidizing poverty

  • J. Tucker Alford

    Clinging to victimhood

  • Phelps Adams

    Capitalism vs. communism

  • William Comer

    Theft by proxy

  • Joseph Story

    Oath of office

  • Jean de la Bruyere

    Governance

  • Michael Horton

    Embrace the fruit, reject the tree

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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