Quotes

Quotes of Note! Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &does not destroy him is his own enemy. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. –Ronald Wilson Reagan- Alexander Tyler. Tyler warned: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury." "If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
--Samuel Adams ++ "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. "
--George Washington "Two basic reasons underlie the attempt to separate America from its spiritual roots. First, the liberal goal of state socialism is incompatible with a citizenry who look to themselves and to God, rather than the state, for the satisfaction of their needs. Socialism requires that citizens do obeisance to the state as the Source from which all blessings flow. The supreme State can have no other God before it. The second reason for outlawing religion derives from the lobbying of those who wish their sins declared virtues. They seek the validation of the law, in the futile belief that the legal right to be wrong makes wrong right." --Linda Bowles
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."
--Thomas Jefferson "...[G]overnment, unless held in check, grows slowly and inexorably. And a government that has no limits, no constitutionally drawn boundaries, soon becomes the master and the citizens become heavily taxed workers little more than slaves. ... Most of all, those early Americans understood that liberty is fragile. To give any distant body of elites the power to tax and spend to stay in power promises corruption and a Leviathan government more interested in concentrating power for itself than in protecting the rights of its citizens." --Matthew Robinson "When I make a joke, people laugh. But when Congress makes a joke, it's a law. And when they make a law, it's a joke."
--Will Rogers "We in America have reached the point where the nation's laws cannot protect our children. The bizarre parsing and twisting of each constitutional right has eroded our fundamental right to live in a country where violent behavior is prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
-- Bill O'Reilly THOMAS JEFFERSON: "No free man shall ever be debarred of use of arms."
PATRICK HENRY: "The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."
JAMES MADISON: "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
SAMUEL ADAMS: "The Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
ALEXANDER HAMILTON: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
JAMES MADISON: "The right of the people to keep (to have and to hold, openly or concealed) and bear (carry, transport and use) firearms (weapons of self- defense, including the handgun which predated the rifle and has existed for self-defense since the 1500's) shall not be infringed (invalidated, limited, abridged). A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country ..."
GEORGE MASON: "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be a all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom of the press."
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."
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." --Samuel Adams
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"A sword never kills anyone; it is a tool in the killer's hand." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - 65 A.D.
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"The gun-control lobby has long peddled the myth that gun ownership causes crime. But...the urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment...." --Pat Buchanan -------------------------------
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact." --George Eliot {} -------------------------------
"Make your life a friction to the machine."
______Thoreau ______________________________
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins; all of them imaginary."
--H.L. Mencken ______________________________
"It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him."
--H.L. Mencken ------------------------------
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" -- Patrick Henry (1736-1799), June 9, 1788, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution, in "Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution", Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.168 (Philadelphia, 1836)
------------------------------ "It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds should have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and who comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. The man who at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold timid souls who never knew victory or defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt - ------------------------------ "A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible's studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools for their children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the Second Amendment; and who distrust big government. Any of these may qualify [a person as a cultist] but certaintly more than one [of these] would cause us to look at this person as a threat, and his family as being in a risk situation that qualified for government interference." - Janet Reno, Interview on 60 Minutes, June 26, 1994 ------------------------------ "In Canada we have fairly rigid gun controls, however, it is certainly not a panacea for preventing crime. As said in earlier discussions, guns are merely a tool. In countries like mine, murders are committed with other weapons of opportunity like knives. Crimes committed with firearms still do occur."
-- Bill Ford ------------------------------ No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation."
---Douglas MacArthur ------------------------------ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------ "It really amazes me how the same people that want to ban all firearms because they are so dangerous, are also the same people that want to hand out free needles to junkies".
---Det John Brady
---81Sqd NYPD ------------------------------- "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have a sheep for dinner and finding a well-informed, well-armed sheep."
-unknown ------------------------------- I DO NOT CHOOSE TO BE A COMMON MAN
It is my right to be uncommon...if I can.
*I seek opportunity...not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to feel and to succeed.* I refuse to barter incentive for a dole.*I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence: the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia.*I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.*I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done. All this is what it means to me to be AN AMERICAN
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"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
-Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanlysis (1952)
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"This year will go down in history. For the first
time, a civilized nation has full gun registration.
Our streets will be safer, our police more
efficient, and the world will follow our lead into
the future"
-- Adolf Hitler, 1935

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"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed
when those who would resist us are totally disarmed."
--- Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control,
to Sen. Metzanbaum, The National Educator, Jan. `94
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