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01Undated

Religious faith is by nature the most fundamental set of beliefs that one can have. It is how a believer views the world, and is how the believer judges himself as well as the other people, things, and events in that world. It colors everything about them. It is for this reason that people who adopt a faith out of convenience appear so phony, and why it is simply not possible for an individual to have a "religion d'jour.

Mike Klepper / quote

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02Undated

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.

Mike Klepper / quote

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03Undated

If you can see something, and it is wrong, you can fight it with a reasonable chance of success. Fighting the nonexistent is worse than pointless: Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but at least windmills are real.

Mike Klepper / quote

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04Undated

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

Mike Klepper / quote

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05Undated

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.

Mike Klepper / quote

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06Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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07Undated

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.

Mike Klepper / quote

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08Undated

You're a free man, act like it.

Mike Klepper / quote

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09Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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10Undated

The fire and passion in a militiaman’s eyes has not been extinguished; the brightness and eagerness remain. I want to be around such men, for they are the only ones worth knowing.

Mike Klepper / quote

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11Undated

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.

Mike Klepper / quote

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12Undated

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.

Mike Klepper / quote

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13Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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14Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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15Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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16Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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17Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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18Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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19Undated

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.

Mike Klepper / quote

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20Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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21Undated

By sabotaging logic, the common frame of reference, and the common language, we have removed a "safety valve" that allows cultural divides to be resolved.

Mike Klepper / quote

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22Undated

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.

Mike Klepper / quote

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23Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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24Undated

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

Mike Klepper / quote

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