Quote of the Day
“There’s no such thing as a good gun. There’s no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.”
-Charlton Heston
Category Archives: Quotes
My Great Objection To this Government
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“My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging wars against tyrants.”
-Patrick Henry
Tyranny and Oppression
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“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
-James Madison
It is the duty of the patriot
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“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”
-Thomas Paine
The militia is the natural defense
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“The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally … enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”
-Justice Joseph Story
Whether liberty has been destroyed
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“I am not well versed in history, but I will submit to your recollection, whether liberty has been destroyed most often by the licentiousness of the people, or by the tyranny of rulers. I imagine, sir, you will find the balance on the side of tyranny.”
-Patrick Henry
To disarm the people
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“Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised…to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia…”
-George Mason
Revolution is never the fault of the people
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“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Stand By Your Country
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“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Limited Government
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“In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.”
-James Madison
