• Thomas Jefferson

  The simple life

• Ron Paul

  Deficit spending

• Thomas Jefferson

  The ratchet effect of government intrusion

• Mark Twain

  Bureaucracies and identity politics

• Thomas Jefferson

  Preserving our republican form of government

• C. S. Lewis

  Democracy is destroying diversity

• Benjamin Franklin

  Choice of the governed

• Calvin Coolidge

  Who pays taxes?

• Voltaire

  Paper money

• Samuel Adams

  The men we need in our government

• Thomas Sowell

  Socialism is a failure

• James Madison

  Regulations and special interests

• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

  Family and country

• Ayn Rand

  Government control of the economy

• Adam Smith

  Spendthrift rulers

• Calvin Coolidge

  Public employee unions

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Public employee union tactics

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Public employee collective bargaining

• Walter E. Williams

  Instant democracy doesn’t work

• James Madison

  General welfare