Useful Quotes

"The purpose of the Second Amendment is not to repel foreign invaders, but to assure the ability to overthrow the government if it ceases to be a government run for and by the people". -- Thomas Jefferson.

"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens." -- Thomas Jefferson, Note in Destutt de Tracy, 1816

"Let your gun be your companion on all your walks." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." -- Samuel Adams

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun." -- Patrick Henry

"What part of the Second Amendment is NOT being infringed today?" -- anon

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" -- Benjamin Franklin

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -- Alice Walker

"An armed society is a polite society." -- Robert Heinlein, "Beyond this Horizon"

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." -- George Bernard Shaw

"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest." -- Gandhi

"It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." -- Henry de Jouvenel

"In a democracy the people get what the majority deserves." -- James Davidson

"The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone." -- James Madison

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority." -- Jesse Jackson

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice." -- Johann von Schiller

"Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state." -- John Dewey

"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." -- John Simon

"Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." -- John V. Lindsay

"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority." -- Lord Acton

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead

"Any law which violates the indefeasible rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all." -- Maximilien Robespierre

"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." -- Moliere

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -- Tacitus

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." -- Winston Churchill

"We are judged by our actions, not by our words." -- Billy Jack

"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes." -- Cesare Beccaria 1764

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth keystone... the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable... more than 99% of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour." George Washington, Address to 1st session of Congress

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