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  • Henry David Thoreau

    Peaceable revolution

  • John Adams

    Your rights

  • Walter E. Williams

    Republic or democracy?

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Real liberty

  • Grover Cleveland

    Who supports whom

  • Thomas Paine

    Society and government

  • Andrew Jackson

    Distinctions in society

  • Samuel Adams

    Defending our liberties

  • Frederic Bastiat

    Collective rights

  • Milton Friedman

    Government effectiveness

  • John F. Kennedy

    Secrecy in free society

  • Ronald Reagan

    Progress

  • Ronald Reagan

    Making government work

  • Ronald Reagan

    If we lose freedom

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The sea of liberty

  • James Madison

    Nothing safe from an excess of power

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Government power is limited

  • Ayn Rand

    Who is destroying the world?

  • Adolf Hitler

    View from the top

  • Joe Sobran

    Civil rights

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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