1 John Adams

1 Samuel Adams

4 Hannah Arendt

3 Aristotle

3 Marcus Aurelius

1 Claude Bernard

1 Norman Bethune

1 Ambrose Bierce

1 William Blake

3 Napoleon Bonaparte

1 Charlotte Bront

1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 William Cullen Bryant

4 Edmund Burke

1 George Carlin

1 Thomas Carlyle

1 Coco Chanel

1 Anton Chekhov

11 Cicero

1 Arthur C. Clarke

2 Carl von Clausewitz

1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 Confucious

1 Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1 Salvador Dali

1 Clarence Darrow

1 Charles Darwin

1 René Descartes

2 John Dewey

1 Marlene Dietrich

1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 Arthur Conan Doyle

4 Albert Einstein

1 Dwight D. Eisenhower

4 Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 Epictetus

2 Epicurus

1 Euripides

1  Viktor E. Frankl

1 Benjamin Franklin

1 Khalil Gibran

17 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 Frederick the Great

1 Stephen Hawking

6 Friedrich A. Hayek

2 Friedrich August von Hayek

2 Henry Hazlitt

1 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2 Hegel

1 Katharine Hepburn

1 Hesiod

1 Hippocrates

2 Oliver Wendell Holmes

1 Homer

1 Elbert Hubbart

1 Victor Hugo

1 Aldous Huxley

1 Robert G. Ingersoll

1 Henry James

2 William James

5 Thomas Jefferson

1 Samuel Johnson

4 Juvenal

2 Immanuel Kant

5 John F. Kennedy

7 John Maynard Keynes

1 Soren Kierkegaard

1 Søren Kierkegaard

1 Henry Kissinger

1 Jack Layton

1 Bruce Lee

1 Vladimir Lenin

8 Abraham Lincoln

5 John Locke

1 Moses Maimonides

1 Groucho Marx

1 Marshall McLuhan

1 Golda Meir

1 H. L. Mencken

2 H.L. Mencken

1 John Stuart Mill

4 Ludwig von Mises

1 Michel de Montaigne

7 Montesquieu

1 Edward R. Murrow

7 Friedrich Nietzsche

3 Kilroy J. Oldster

1 George Orwell

3 Thomas Paine

1 Blaise Pascal

2 George S. Patton

1 Frederick S. Perls

1 John Pilger

4 Plato

6 Bias of Priene

1 Ayn Rand

1 Ronald Reagan

1 Ronald Reagan

1 François de La Rochefoucauld

1 Eleanor Roosevelt

1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1 Bertrand Russell

1 Carl Sagan

1 George Santayana

3 Jean-Paul Sartre

18 Arthur Schopenhauer

2 Arthur Schopenhauer

1 Seneca

10 Seneca

3 William Shakespeare

1 George Bernard Shaw

2 Fulton J. Sheen

10 Adam Smith

1 Betty Smith

5 Socrates

1 Susan Sontag

5 Sophocles

1 Stephen Spielberg

2 Baruch Spinoza

2 John Steinbeck

2 Tacitus

1 Alfred Lord Tennyson

1 Alvin Toffler

3 Leo Tolstoy

6 Mark Twain

3 Lao Tzu

1 Sun Tzu

4 Virgil

3 Voltaire

3 Kurt Vonnegut

1 George Washington

1 William Westmoreland

2 Oscar Wilde

1 W.B. Yeats

1 William Pitt the Younger
Thomas Paine
Socrates poisoned, Aristides ostracized, Aristotle fleeing for his life, Jesus crucified, Paul beheaded, Peter crucified head downward, Savonarola martyred, Spinoza hunted, tracked and cursed, and an order issued that no man should speak to him not supply him food or shelter, Bruno burned, Galileo imprisoned, Huss, Wyclif, Latimer and Tyndale used for kindling - all this in the name of religion, institutional religion, the one thing that has caused more misery, heartaches, bloodshed, war, than all other causes combined.
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Thomas Paine
Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.
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Thomas Paine
If a house of legislation is to be composed of men of one class, for the purpose of protecting a distinct interest, all the other interests should have the same. The inequality, as well as the burthen of taxation, arises from admitting it in one case, and not in all. Had there been a house of farmers, there had been no game laws; or a house of merchants and manufacturers. the taxes had neither been so unequal nor so excessive. It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
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