“The test of good law is not whether it will accomplish its purpose if properly administered, but what damage it will do if improperly administered.”

​— Sam Ervin

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

​— Oscar Wilde

“There is no such thing as ‘democratic’ socialism. Socialism is the government control of the means of production and there’s nothing ‘democratic’ about it. They’ll confiscate your freedom and your property, by force if necessary. Socialism is for imbeciles; don’t be an imbecile.”

​— Dan Bongino

“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

“Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.”

​— Michael Crichton

“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