Category: Quote O’ The Day

Our Citizens have been always free to make, vend, and export arms. It is the constant occupation and livelihood of some of them…
-Thomas Jefferson.

Our Constitution is our rule of law, and the first 10 amendments of that venerable document contain our Bill of Rights. Those First Amendment rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble, and the right to petition the government for redress of grievance, do not come with any requirement to obtain a permit.
– Allen West

“I would never wish for the death of anyone, that being said, there are some obituaries I have read with a great deal of pleasure.”
-Mark Twain

“You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
– Rush Limbaugh

The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy.
– Fred Smith

The only reason we have warning labels is because government officials realized that they personally require them to survive and not accidentally kill themselves.
-unattributed

 

“One of my rules-of-thumb is that anything that can’t be explained with normal words is BS”
-Scott Adams

Carnivores are just as cultish as vegans, but I have yet to see a human barricade of carnivores at the entrance of Whole Foods to stop people from buying veggies.
– unattributed

You are only an Apex Predator when armed – Zendo Deb

“There is a true law, a right reason, conformable to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty.”
– Cicero

Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please.
Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle

There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.
— James Madison

Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— LORD ACTON

No need for party affiliation to have common sense. 2A was designed to hamstring the Government. If that eludes you, then you are ignorant.
– Stone Thompson

“Studies show that moslem terrorists are less prone to violence after they’ve been shot in the face”
– unattributed.

“People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’
Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
Wear a gun to someone else’s house, you’re saying,
‘I’ll defend this home as if it were my own.’
When your guests see you carry a weapon, you’re telling them,
‘I’ll defend you as if you were my own family.’
And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible:
‘I don’t trust you unless you’re rendered harmless’!”
–L. Neil Smith

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician’s major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.
– Walter E. Williams

“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.” – Benjamin Franklin

“What’s past is prologue” -Antonio in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest