Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?
-Milton Friedman
Category: Quote O’ The Day
If you are willing to paint people who disagree with you as monsters who are “pro dead school children”, I can’t begin to imagine the state sponsored violence you could rationalize being used against them.
We’ll keep our guns, thanks.
“What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”
— Thomas Sowell
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.
– John Adams
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. — Barry Goldwater
“Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy … censorship. When any government, or any church, for that matter, undertakes to say to it’s subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
–Robert A. Heinlein, “Revolt in 2100”
To me, the debate comes down to a simple dichotomy:
With an armed population, we run the risk of tragedies. With a disarmed population, we run the risk of genocide.
It staggers my imagination that, so very soon after the mass killings of the 20th century, so many people have lost sight of this.
–Daniel Schwartz
For those that will fight for it, FREEDOM has a flavor the protected shall never know.
–L/Cpl Edwin L.”Tim” Craft
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
– George Orwell
“The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.”
— Walter E. Williams
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
– Anthony Trollope
Frankly, no one that isn’t in the military — this is a weapon of war — or a trained police department, in my view, no one in America who isn’t in one of those two situations should own an automatic weapon. There is no reason to own one of those.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (demoncrap)
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.
― German Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (NAZI)
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today.
—Thomas Sowell
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
– Benjamin Franklin
“I’m tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.”
— L. Neil Smith
After fighting a bloody revolution against a tyrannical king and the most powerful army in the world, our founding fathers set about creating the Supreme Law of the Land. They were most concerned about free speech and the National Guard’s right to hunt ducks with muskets.
–Walter Flegalmansenson
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
– Lord Acton
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men’s rights.
— Abraham Lincoln
“Banning weapons is the most white privilege idea ever. Rich liberals scoffing at the idea that a person might need to defend their own life is a tower so ivory you can’t look at it in direct sunlight. It’s the personal safety equivalent of “just have the maid do it.”
– Caleb Howe
It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
— Justice Robert H. Jackson