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Thomas Jefferson, a Founder of the United States.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to
remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are
willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln, a Savior of the United States.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our
freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to
rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits
them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we
hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained,
for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right
to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not
to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the
Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
Nicolo Machiavelli, Patron Saint of Sleazy Politicians.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a
deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo Machiavelli
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the
men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity
of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Karl Marx, Philosopher of Socialism/Communism.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin, a Founder of the USSR.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never
be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be
of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin
Go To
USConstitution.net and read about the document we need to protect.
"The right of having and using arms for self-preservation and
defense is justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it
be in fact, taken away by the law of society."
-Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England.
"Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual
discretion...in private self-defense."
-John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions (1787-88).
"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, during Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention
(1788).
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess
over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are
afraid to trust the people with arms."
-James Madison, The Federalist #46.
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the
American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence."
-George Washington.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776), Jefferson Papers 344
(J. Boyd, ed. 1950).
"The great object is, that every man be armed...Everyone who is able may have a
gun..."
-Patrick Henry, 3 Elliott Debates 386.
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order
in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were the
law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
-Thomas Paine, Thoughts on Defensive War (1775).
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who
approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright
force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined."
-Patrick Henry, during Virginia's ratification convention (1788).
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in
almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America can not enforce
unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed, and
constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any
pretense, raised in the United States."
-Noah Webster, An Examination Into the Leading Principals of the Federal
Constitution (1787).
"To disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave
them..."
-George Mason, 3 Elliott Debates (on the Constitution) 380.
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"We are SO screwed."
EnemyoftheState
"Guns don't kill people. Good aim, proper
techniques and frequent practice kills people."
EnemyoftheState
"WWRRD (What Would
Ronald Reagan Do?)"
EnemyoftheState
"Violence is not the answer. No, applied
correctly, violence is a transitive declarative sentence."
EnemyoftheState
Other Famous People:
“One has not only a legal but a moral
responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to
disobey unjust laws.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired
upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
Captain John Parker to the company assembled on Lexington Green.
“If you will not fight for the right when you
can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will
be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to
fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There
may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of
victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Winston Churchill
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on
what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote."
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin
"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep
and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government." Thomas Jefferson
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear
the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for
every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the
enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
Sun Tzu
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but
they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of
independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their
own government.”
George Washington
"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it
forces those who fear it to imitate it."
Adolf Hitler
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a
little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Attributed to Ben Franklin
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take
away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under
arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who
are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."
John Locke.
"Power always thinks it has a great soul
and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's
service when it is violating all his laws."
John Adams
"Give a man a program, frustrate him for a
day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime."
H. Ross Perot
Unknown Authors:
"A reason for the “wealth or income gap”:
Smart people keep on doing things that are smart and make them money while
stupid people keep on doing things that are stupid and keep them from achieving.
People who get an education, stay off of drugs, apply themselves, and save and
wisely invest their earnings do a lot better than people who drop out of school,
become substance abusers, and buy fancy cars and houses that they can’t afford,
only to lose them.
We don’t have an income gap. We have a stupid gap."
Commenter on Internet Blog
"If God didn't want us to eat animals, He
wouldn't have made them out of meat."
Answer to a vegetarian