Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-02-28 Feb 28, 2003Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiWaiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.~ Janet RenoThis year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilised nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!~ Adolf HitlerFoolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don’t see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.~ Alan Dershowitz Feb 27, 2003The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.~ Erik H. EriksonIf you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.~ Tom BraunNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Feb 26, 2003Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.~ William PittYou can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.~ Billie HolidayThere is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.~ Charles-Louis de Secondat Feb 25, 2003Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.~ Benjamin DisraeliWhatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.~ Neil A. McDonald Feb 24, 2003The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.~ Justice William O. DouglasIf a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.~ W. Somerset Maugham Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print