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Some Of My Favorite Quotes
Many of the following quotes pertain to the "Right to Bear Arms" and self-preservation. Remember, without the right to protect your life, or property......all other rights cannot even exist..........................................
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. The great object is that every man be armed and everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry
"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
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." Edmund Burke
"The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone." James Madison
"As long as the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their Virtue they will be ready to surrender their Liberties to the first external or internal invader...If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great Security." Samuel Adams
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." Benjamin Franklin
"I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." Thomas Jefferson
"In war there is no substitute for victory." Douglas Macarthur
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people... Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice." John Adams
"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." Aristotle
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius
"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon." Winston Churchill
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add within the limits of the law, because law is often but the tyrants will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." Thomas Jefferson
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. Your honesty influences others to be honest." George Washington
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." Harry S. Truman
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." Ronald Reagan
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government-lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." Patrick Henry
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." Louis D. Brandeis
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God." James Madison
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms, the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
"We make war that we may live in peace." Aristotle
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." Mark Twain
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." Clarence Darrow
"The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree." Ayn Rand
"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add within the limits of the law, because law is often but the tyrants will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." Thomas Jefferson
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." Benjamin Franklin
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." James Madison
"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society." John Quincy Adams
"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient." Aristotle
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." Will Rogers
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria
"The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country." James Madison
"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." Thomas Jefferson
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." Winston Churchill
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." Mark Twain
"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him." George Orwell
"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 their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." Abraham Lincoln
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law." Ayn Rand
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." Benjamin Franklin
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 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
"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established." Aristotle
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why cant it get us out?" Will Rogers
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." Thomas Jefferson
"If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil." Mole
"The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals. It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." Albert Gallatin
"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob." Ayn Rand
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." Robert A. Heinlein
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." Thomas Jefferson
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible." Hubert H. Humphrey
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." Ayn Rand
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
"We cannot learn without pain." Aristotle
"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
"That government is best which governs least." Thomas Jefferson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." Benjamin Franklin
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." Mark Twain
"As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action." Veda Upanishads
"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society." Thomas Jefferson
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." Tench Coxe
"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 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. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive." Noah Webster
"The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government.... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind." Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." Benjamin Franklin
"Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion...in private self-defense." John Adams
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in." Will Rogers
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times." Mark Twain
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?" Thomas Jefferson
"Thinking men cannot be ruled." Ayn Rand
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." Thomas Jefferson
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein
"The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." Thomas Jefferson
"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny." Robert A. Heinlein
"In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position." John Loeffler
"The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience." Mark Twain
"Politics: noun. Poly=many + tics=blood sucking parasites" Unknown
