Category: Thought

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

President Warren Gamaliel Harding, inaugural address (March 4, 1921).

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness (1964).

Man was created for social intercourse; but social intercourse cannot be maintained without a sense of justice; then man must have been created with a sense of justice.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis W. Gilmer, June 7, 1816.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him: every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him: and, no man having a natural right to be the judge between himself and another, it is his natural duty to submit to the umpirage of an impartial third. [W]hen the laws have declared and enforced all this, they have fulfilled their functions, and the idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural right.

Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmore, June 7, 1816.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer — and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness (1964).

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Arnold Bennett, Things That Have Interested Me, 2nd series (1923), “Secret Trials.”

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Will Rogers, in ‪The Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts‬ (2001), by Nina Colman, p. 316

First and foremost, we must accept that we are indeed in our governments’ cross hairs. Instead of relying on their treacherous and malevolent guidance, we must therefore watch out for ourselves and our loved ones — do our own research and seek out honest health advice wherever it may be found, be it inside or outside the established venues of science and of medicine.

Michael Palmer, MD, with contributions from Sucharit Bhakti, MD, Brian Hooker, PhD, Mary Holland, JD, Margot DesBois, BA, David Rasnick, PhD, Catherine Austin Fitts, mRNA Vaccine Toxicity (D4CE.org, 2023), 9.5 “What can we do?”

There is nothing so moving — not even acts of love or hate — as the discovery that one is not alone.

Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations (1966).