“If the planet stopped using fossil fuels tomorrow, billions of people would be dead within two weeks.”

— Tony Heller

“Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: ‘Things must change — no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.’ Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it.”

— Hannah Arendt

“Government has never made anything better or cheaper, more effective or more efficient. And nowhere is that more true than in education.”

— Betsy DeVos

“Don’t worry about the bullet with your name on it; worry about the one marked ‘to whom it may concern.’”

— Chuck Taylor

“We think that we are becoming more advanced by abandoning the Constitution and adopting something like an administrative state. But what we are in fact doing is becoming more primitive. We are regressing.”

— Kevin Portteus

“Criminals often suffer from a mineral deficiency disorder. Two shots of lead to the thoracic cavity normally takes care of their problem immediately. […] You must have a gun and training to deliver the right prescription.”

— Ignatius Piazza

“The 2nd amendment is the only amendment that requires a background check, fee, and can be stripped without a felony conviction. Imagine if they did that with voting.”

— My Showerthoughts

“We used to be a free people. Now we are hedged in by millions of laws. Harassed by a plague of opportunistic lawyers. Harmed by regulations meant for our protection. Unnecessarily taxed to pay for a suffocating bureaucracy. Drowning in petty paperwork. Stifled by ‘rights’ that rarely benefit anyone.”

— Joan Beck

“If I have worked harder and built myself a good house while you have been content to live in a hovel, the tax gatherer now comes annually to make me pay a penalty for my energy and industry by taxing me more than you. If I have saved while you wasted, I am [taxed] while you are exempt. If a man built a ship, we make him pay for his temerity as though he had done injury to the state; if a railroad be opened, down comes the tax collector upon it as though were a public nuisance … We punish with a tax the man who covers barren fields with ripening grain; we fine him who puts up machinery and him who drains a swamp. To abolish these taxes would be to lift the whole enormous weight of taxation from productive industry … The state would say to the producer, ‘Be as industrious, as thrifty, as enterprising as you choose. You shall have your full reward!’”

— Henry George