Those who would trade freedom for security, deserve neither" -Thomas Jefferson

"If once a man indulges himself in Murder, very soon he comes to think little of Robbing, and from Robbing he comes next to Drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to Incivility and Procrastination." -T. De Quincy (1785-1859) "Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts"

"Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." ("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.") - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD)

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James

"It's the misfortune of all Countries, that they sometimes lie under a unhappy necessity to defend themselves by Arms against the ambition of their Governors, and to fight for what's their own. If those in government are heedless of reason, the people must patiently submit to Bondage, or stand upon their own Defense; which if they are enabled to do, they shall never be put upon it, but their Swords may grow rusty in their hands; for that Nation is surest to live in Peace, that is most capable of making War; and a Man that hath a Sword by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it." --John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Walter Moyle (1672-1721), "An Argument, shewing; that a standing Army is Inconsistent with a Free Government and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy," (London, 1697)

Banning the right to defensive gun carry is like "protecting" the Mice from the Cat by pulling the teeth of the former, while leaving the claws of the latter intact.

"That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there!" -George Orwell, 1940, in the democratic socialist weekly "Tribune," quoted in "Orwell: The Authorized Biography," by Michael Shelden

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forget their use." -Galileo

"And I'm glad to be an American, where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget the men who died to give that right to me. I'd gladly stand up, next to you, and defend her still today I'm proud to be an American. God bless the USA!!!" -Lee Greenwood, God Bless the USA

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -Thomas Jefferson

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams

"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -Adolf Hitler

The Principles of wealth creation transcend time, people and place. Governments which deliberately subvert them by denouncing God, smothering faith, destroying freedom, and confiscating wealth have impoverished their people. Communism works only in heaven, where they don't need it, and in hell, where they've already got it. -Ronald Reagan

"It would...be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated Militia -- and to find that purely institutional guarantee accorded a position of great prominence immediately following freedom of religion and freedom of speech." --Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the Second Amendment: (A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law, Princeton University Press, 1997, 159 pages.)

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue." --Unknown

"FREEDOM!" -- William Wallace, Braveheart