Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-10-06 Oct 6, 2005None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.~ John MiltonA legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.~ Justice John MarshallBut, sir, the people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal of arms. An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law; and any man may be justified in his resistance. Let him be considered as a criminal by the general government, yet only his fellow-citizens can convict him; they are his jury, and if they pronounce him innocent, not all the powers of Congress can hurt him; and innocent they certainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law he resisted was an act of usurpation.~ Theophilus Parsons Oct 5, 2005It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.~ David HumeWhile the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny.~ Rev. Nicholas CollinWhereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as 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 Oct 4, 2005The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.~ Alexander Hamilton... in all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms -- and these the best and the sharpest -- for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur.~ James PatersonThe cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.~ W. E. B. Du Bois Oct 3, 2005A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.~ Thomas JeffersonMake men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.~ Rev. Henry Ward BeecherLiberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.~ William Allen White Sep 30, 2005Any excuse will serve a tyrant.~ AesopAre we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the_real_object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?~ Patrick HenrySuch questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship.~ Stephen P. Halbrook Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print