...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.