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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

    Free thought, free speech

  • James Madison

    Fluctuating policies

  • Frank Kent

    Ending government evil

  • H. L. Mencken

    Demagogue defined

  • Francis Bacon

    Cunning men

  • John Jay

    Causes of war

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Borrowing

  • Winston Churchill

    The philosophy of socialism

  • Ayn Rand

    Police protection

  • Ayn Rand

    Love of money

  • George Orwell

    Intellectual stupidity

  • Ayn Rand

    Cause of inflation

  • Alexis de Tocqueville

    Corrupting the system

  • John Adams

    Facts are stubborn things

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Destructive government

  • Alexis de Tocqueville

    Destroying our liberties

  • Ronald Reagan

    Nation without borders

  • Thomas Sowell

    Government’s fatal attraction

  • Thomas Paine

    Honesty isn’t always pretty

  • James Madison

    Public debt

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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