“In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Category Archives: Quotes
Preexisting
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.”
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
Bill of Rights
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Willing To Die
“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”
-Douglas MacArthur
Meaning of the Words
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
-Samuel Adams
Never Forget Their Names
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.’
-John F. Kennedy
Ready For War
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”
-George Washington
The Problem With Socialism
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.”
-Margaret Thatcher
If There Must Be Trouble
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
-Thomas Paine
Retaliation
“The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail… the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.”
-Jeff Cooper
