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“Do not feel compelled to justify your faith through reason and logic; these are only instruments used to rationalize your passions. But these tools are cold and lifeless. Any passion that can be thoroughly justified with them cannot contain within it any signs of life. And the more one tries to reason-out their passion, the more one drains the life-force from it.”
― Tanner Cook, Sons of Liberty: Manifesto

“Modern democratic civilizations have a great distaste for aggression, discrimination, tradition, and strict codes of honor. Their affluent lifestyles and egalitarian philosophies have distanced themselves from the cold, hard realities of life on earth. From the safety and comfort of their walled-paradise, and with full bellies, they can abstractly piece together a world where nobody hates, steals, kills, cheats, and lies; where all humans are valuable and deserve unconditional acceptance, no matter where they’re from or what they believe. But their disconnectedness to reality does nothing to alter it.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“Thus, when we speak of American Idealism, we speak with reverence to the values and virtues that this nation was founded upon. We remember the hell from which this paradise was raised. We honor our forefathers for their bravery and sacrifice. We hold true to the principles of their established order. We recognize and respect the distinct identity and character of the American.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“The tribe was of one mind when it came to fundamental beliefs, values, and virtues. If you shared the warmth of the fire, you were a welcomed member of the tribe and deserving of ethical treatment and hospitality. Those that lurked in the darkness be damned. This was the order by which we were raised.
Today, we’ve relinquished our reliance on the tribe and its social structure in exchange for the state and its structure. While this expanded our potential, it also weakened the ability to hold onto our traditions and values. The vast bureaucracy of democratic government invites too many into a position of authority; too many with too many beliefs, or lack thereof. It distempers the culture and renders our values malleable. It distorts the division of “usâ€� and “them.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“The masses take to the polls and attempt to cast their will upon the world; how pathetic, that the only attempt to power is a plea to those who already possess it. But this is modern-day revolution; the struggle of the “oppressed;â€� the path from equality to something more.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“But am I satisfied to know merely the structure of the rainbow and how it came to be? Is that why I gaze upon it; with thoughts of refraction and wave frequency? Am I better off, now that I know this celestial arch isn’t divinely inspired â€� that there isn’t some meaningful purpose to it? Is that truly the answer I wanted when I asked myself where this spectacle came from? Do I stare up at the night sky because I search for the elements that comprise the star? Do we rationalize the tears that are shed at the birth of a child and the death of a loved-one? Do we ask ourselves why we dance? Do we contemplate that question before we allow the music to stir us? Do we allow it at all, or does it allow us? Not a single note, by itself, compels a couple to gracefully embrace, yet, this is how they would have us understand it - music, merely a series of connected notes and nothing more.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“Of course, the irony of it all is that when the individual is prioritized to such a high degree, that none can be ignored, the most diseased and superfluous must lead the herd so as not to be left behind. Naturally, the needs of the individual become less important than the needs of the collective. “Every individual is sacrificed and serves as a tool.â€� What began with the exaltation of the individual ends with the extinction of any such character.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“Too long have we allowed the leviathan of the State and its cronies to trample us, unchecked and unchallenged. There must be men of action, willing to push back against the forces of tyranny. This is not a call to abolition, overthrow, or revolution; merely resistance. The aim is not to rid the world of those who believe differently, rather, to ensure the world does not rid itself of us.”
― Tanner Cook, Sons of Liberty: Manifesto

“Our nation was born from insurgency.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“This is life; the totality of experience. For one could never experience the whole of life without these fulfilling dualities and tragic paradoxes. ...If man was not pulled in two opposing directions at once, what choice would he ever have to make? What is the will without choice? What is life without the will?”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“The first challenge of every man is to know himself. The second challenge is to become himself. The final challenge is to overcome himself.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“Empathy is biological just as much as desire; why should empathy prevail, and desire submit? The higher man can possess great amounts of empathy, but he doesn’t bestow it without discrimination just as he doesn’t succumb to his desire without deliberation.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“Our Constitutional Republic wasn’t constructed through elitist social engineering or some sort of utopian political theory. It was raised from the ground up; formed from the very natures of the people whom made it possible. This is worthy of remembrance. This is history to be proud of. This is an identity to embrace. This is an ideal to defend.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“The fulness of our experience is not something divisible. We don’t take-in the Sistine Chapel by examining single brush-strokes. The sensation of love isn’t experienced by understanding its chemicals. There is no mathematical formula that results in happiness; no set of principles to avoid despair. We may inhabit the physical world, a world that can be reduced to atoms and equations, but our life is something transcendent. This much, we cannot deny.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“We live under a government of not just a few tyrants, but countless thousands.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“As for me, I will choose to keep the flame of liberty ablaze; I will set the world on fire with it, if I must. There is no life for me if I submit to slavery. I cease to exist if I sacrifice my very Being to the State. I will not. I will resist. Are you with me, my brothers?”
― Tanner Cook, Sons of Liberty: Manifesto

“All humans exert a will to power; a will to have an effect on their existence; to attempt to fulfill who and what they believe they are. And power necessarily leads to imbalances; this is inescapable. For if your power was equally matched by everything in opposition to you, then nothing would have any power at all and nothingness would result from this stagnation - because there is something, there must be a power that prevails.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“Courage is the engine that will mobilize your strength. Being strong will do you no good if you don’t possess the mettle to use it when it’s most needed.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“This places the insurgent in a highly advantageous position to control the battlefield via the luxury of always being able to choose the time and place for attack. In warfare, this advantage is priceless.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“Evolution has no sum; there is no final destination. It is a process of becoming. This process has produced in man a unique ability to choose. Henceforth, we will become what we choose to become. Let us choose strength over weakness; competence over impotence; pragmatism over piety; victory over defeat. And most importantly, let us always choose liberty over slavery, lest we lose our ability to choose at all.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“The tools of reason are cold and inert; they cannot be used to form the foundations of those values from which we become animate. So when contemporary philosophers, scientists, politicians, and even the common man attempt to justify their beliefs based on reason alone, they are ultimately doomed to fail in their efforts. Science and logic are powerful tools of excavation to uncover facts, but at the depths of the canyon from which they dig, the question of why will always echo back to them.”
― Tanner Cook

“Democracy is often hailed as an achievement; a milestone in the evolution of our social progress. But if this achievement is to be considered the pinnacle of our progression, it is only because it’s from this precipice that we plunge to our doom.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“If a man erects any barriers at all to those he would consider his companions, he is condemned as a bigot. Modernity doesn’t want a small tribal fire contained in the center of like-minded peoples. It would rather set the forest on fire in order to “enlightenâ€� the world.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“Should they send their dogs after me in an attempt to subdue me, may they find me in the presence of a pack of wolves, equally set to task. So tend to your flock, you shepherds and dogs, but proceed with caution if you wish to cage the wolf. I have not lost my instincts. I have not forgotten who I am. My liberty will die with you and I.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“This is America.

We don’t quit.
We don’t surrender.
We don’t apologize.

We stand. We resist. We fight.

This is The Way of Free Men.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“One doesn’t live eternally simply because they are remembered. Any dead man can be remembered; only a great man can die and still live on. For your body to die, but your will to live on - that is immortality. If a man’s body has long since decomposed but the influence his will had in this world still churns this day, that man is more alive than most men will ever be.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian

“The American is faced with extinction today, for he still holds on to the ways of his tradition and values, regardless of society’s decision to “progressâ€� past them. To exist in a world that no longer wants you to be a part of it, you must awaken the primitive archetype inside you. You must cast aside all ambitions to like and accept indiscriminately, or to be liked and accepted indiscriminately. You’re no longer surrounded by proud countryman, but world-eaters and nihilists that desire your extermination. The American must now root his feet into solid ground and declare this land his, ruled by its true values, and rightfully inhabited by men of a similar faith. We must cut out a corner of this nation and claim it for ourselves, without apology, and from there, expand â€� our own Manifest Destiny. If we fail to call-up those primal instincts and tribal practices that our ancestors knew all too well, we will fall to the rule of spineless and soulless degenerates.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“We cannot always determine our situation or our lot in life, but we can determine our response to these circumstances. That is what makes a man free; not his conditions, but his actions.”
― Tanner Cook

“Democracy is the form of government that results from a sick and dying culture. Rather than allowing the strong, capable, noble, and tenacious to assume their rightful position of leadership over a nation, we accept a form of rule whereby the weakest among us can rise, so long as they entertain and satiate the base desires of the mob.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“Our capacity for reason brought us out of the jungles and gave us dominion, not only over the beasts that prey upon us, but also the beast within us.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian