The Second Amendment
Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun. The same situation exists in Israel, whose armed forces are similar to the Swiss model:Many citizens keep their military weapons--the well known Uzi submachine gun, for example--in their coat closets.
Tom Clancy
The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.
James A. Donald
When the world is at peace, a gentleman keeps his sword close by his side.
Ho Yen-hsi
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship which enjoys a monopoly over weapons, and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.
George Keenan,
1964
To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
George Mason
Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and opposed subjects.
Leo Tolstoy,
1893
I am one who believes that as a first step the U.S. should move expeditiously to disarm the civilian population, other than the police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols and revolvers... no one should have a right to anonymous ownership or use of a gun.
Professor Dean Morris,
director, LEAA
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people’s liberty’s teeth.
George Washington
The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
Patrick Henry
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.
James Earl Jones
NRA life member John F. Kennedy was shot by ACLU member Lee Harvey Oswald.
If we outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
Thomas Jefferson
The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infinge the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
Sam Adams
If the opposition (citizen) disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin
And we should -- then every community in the country could then start doing major weapon sweeps and then destroying the weapons, not selling them.
Bill Klinton, President,
sworn defender of the U.S. Constitution
Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.
Janet Reno
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA -ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.
Heinrich Himmler
Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
Sara Brady,
Chairman, Handgun Control, to Sen. Howard Metzanbaum, The
National Educator, Page 3, January 1994
Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It’s quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you’re being robbed.
Lowell Duckett
Washington,D.C. , assitant police chief
I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.
Massad Ayoob,
The Truth About Self Protection
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone
An armed society is a polite society.
Robert Heinlein
Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killers hands.)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the younger"
circa 4 BC - 65 AD
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma K. Gandhi
Gandhi, An Autobiography, page 446
Tell the American people never to lose their guns. As long as they keep their guns in their hands, what has happened here will never happen there.
a dying Chinese citizen shot at Bejing, Red China
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.
Luke 11:21-22
People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among them were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
L. Neil Smith,
The Probability Broach
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The Second Amendment
of the Bill of Rights
...And He said to them, 'But now, let him who has a purse take it along, likewise also a bag, and let him who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
Jesus Christ,
Luke 22:36 NKJV
Truth
Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances.
Bill Klinton,
Time magazine
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein,
Ideas and Opinions of Albert Einstein, 1954
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
I never give them hell, I just tell the truth, and they think its hell.
Harry S. Truman
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.
Thomas Paine
There is no such thing as truth.
Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf, 1925
If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
There is not greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy,
War and Peace
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
Martin Luther
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
John Milton,
1608-1674, Paradise Lost., 6
Democracy, Socialism, etc.
A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common save one word: equality, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude, while democracy seeks equality in liberty.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Equality of opportunity and equality of result are entirely alien to each other.
Men are entitled to equal rights - but to equal rights to unequal things.
Charles James Fox
When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
James Dale Davidson
If the world were so organized that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone's self-interest would have to be served.
Anonymous
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its
will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of
the majority.
p. 40
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Eric Hoffer
Reflections on the Human Condition, p. 43, 1973
Socialism is communism without the firing squad.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannot be brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church. . . . Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.
Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti)
From the encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno (1931).
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
Plato,
The Republic, VIII
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Aristotle,
Rhetoric, I
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
"From Under the Rubble"
This nation couldn’t move toward socialism if its Congressional leaders didn’t believe in it.
Drake Raft
Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.
José Antonio Viera Gall
Great Socialist statesmen aren’t made, they’re stillborn.
Saki
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Kenneth Baker
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft
Mr. Gorbechev tear down that wall!
We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
October 27, 1964
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.
Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples of the earth—they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
The Marxist vision of man without God must eventually be seen as an empty and a false faith—the second oldest in the world—first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with whispered words of temptation: 'Ye shall be as gods.'
Ronald Reagan
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes,
1908 U.S. Supreme Court Justice
One of the the disadvantages of democracy is that the minority has the say and the majority has to pay.
If tolerance is a necessary virtue in our democratic society, there must be tolerance for the views of the majority. The village athiest has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.
Right from the Begining p.353
The greatest cost of the Welfare State is not to be measured in dollars; and it has not been paid by taxpayers. Begun with good intentions, the Great Society ended with the worst results. While hundreds of billions have been piled onto the national debt, we have created in America's great cities a permanent, sullen, resentful underclass, utterly dependent upon federal charity for food, shelter and medical care with little hope for escape.
Patrick J. Buchanan
Please do not feed the squirrels. If you feed the squirrels, they'll become overweight, and prone to disease. Their population will grow, and they'll lose their ability to forage for food on their own. They will expect you to feed them and will attack you if you don't. They'll become like little welfare recipients, and you wouldn't want to do this to them.
Sign in Rocky Mountain National Park
WORK HARDER!... Millions on welfare depend on YOU!!!
From The Simpsons, April, 1993:
"Didn't you think there was something wrong when you were getting checks for doing nothing?"
"I thought it was because the Democrats were back in power."