Mike Klepper

“Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded.”

“There is a word we should be using towards government officials whenever they deny our individual rights: "No". Being just a word, it isn't a strong weapon. But it is the intellectual wellspring from which all other weapons flow.”

“If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.”

“For the evil our government does, tinfoil hats are simply not required, and are indeed a detriment.”

“Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?”

“The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the lives and property of its citizens.”

“If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.”

“Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.”

“Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.”

“Individualists and collectivists both have been wronged by the government, and we all maintain (consciously or subconsciously) a list of the ways our lives have been diminished by its bureaucracies and actions. One of the differences between the collectivists and the individualists is that those wrongs are front and center for the individualists, whereas the collectivists are blind to those wrongs, or they excuse those wrongs, or they forgive those wrongs. "Use us," the collectivists say, while they throw not only themselves into the bottomless pit that is the Administrative State, but everybody else too.”

“It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.”

“You're a free man, act like it.”

“Appearance is irrelevant, perception is irrelevant; what matters is that reality exists and that we are capable of understanding it. This is the absolute key to survival. A man who lives by his mind, lives; a man who ignores his mind, thereby ignoring reality, dies. Simple.”

“Never, ever, trust a man who is willing to die in glory but is unable to live with pride.”

“Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.”

“People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.”

“The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.”

“You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.”

“For any reputable person or organization to be successful, that person's or organization's actions must be based on solid information, not conspiracy theories, not hearsay, not rumors, and certainly not fear mongering.”

“People too often tolerate uncertainty prior to taking action; worse, some people believe that omniscience or infallibility are prerequisites for being certain, so they conclude that certainty (and therefore knowledge) is never possible. To any person who proclaims that "you can never be certain of anything", ask them: "are you sure?" and watch what happens.”