“You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.” StillsMatterFactsAmericaEnergyLeftProductionsDeeperOilHolesAlternativesHillsPermanentDeclineRefugeReverseShelvesWildlifeDiggingDrillsArcticContinentalOil Production Author:Roscoe Bartlett
“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.” PeopleDoeFormLeftOpinionPrinciplesImpossibleMajorityChecksLimitationPermanentMinoritiesRejectsSentimentsAnarchyArrangementsSovereignRestraintDeliberateDespotismRejectingPopular OpinionUnanimity Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46 Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.” IfsFeelsShouldBelieveGovernmentLeftShould HaveGravesGet UpPermanentMinistersPrimeRetirementPrime Minister Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans and coming back is worth doing. The expense of planning to come back is like the people who left Europe to come to America and then to turn around and go back to Europe, it really doesn't make any sense at all.” PeopleThinkingHumansAbleAmericaTurnsLeftGrowingEuropePlanningCommitPermanentExpensesMarsComing BackSettlement Author:Buzz Aldrin