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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited
“Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
-U.S. Supreme Court
No bastard ever won a war
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
-George S. Patton
We dare not forget
“We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.”
-John F. Kennedy
Every immigrant who comes here
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Prepare for the unknown
“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
-George S. Patton
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”
-General Douglas MacArthur
Not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege
“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.”
-Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Before a standing army can rule
“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 cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
-Noah Webster
Rightful masters of both Congress and the courts
“We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.”
-Abraham Lincoln
