Category: Quote O’ The Day

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. – John Adams

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose. — James Earl Jones

A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. —  Shane

Congressman Randy Fine
For my next hat trick, I’m going to get Democrats to adopt the “if you love your dog, you’re a racist” position.
Oh wait, I already did that.

Some people think that the Second Amendment is an outdated relic of an earlier time. Doubtless some also think that constitutional protections of other rights are outdated relics of earlier times.
We The People own those rights regardless, unless and until We The People repeal them.
For those who believe it to be outdated, the Second Amendment provides a good test of whether their allegiance is really to the Constitution of the United States, or only to their preferences in public policies and audiences.
The Constitution is law, not vague aspirations, and we are obligated to protect, defend, and apply it.
If the Second Amendment were truly an outdated relic, the Constitution provides a method for repeal. The Constitution does not furnish the federal courts with an eraser. –9th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Kleinfeld

Echoing Tacitus’:The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. — James Bovard

“The endlessly repeated argument that most Americans are the descendants of immigrants ignores the fact that most Americans are NOT the descendants of ILLEGAL immigrants.” — Thomas Sowell

Liberalizing concealed carry laws won’t lead to a return to the Wild West – though it wouldn’t be bad if it did. … in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capital robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City’s. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown. — David Kopel

Hypocrisy is believing the First Amendment protects flag burning, but the Second Amendment doesn’t protect owning an AR-15.–unattributed

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. -Frederick Douglass

As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I’ve realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it’s much, much bigger than that. I’ve come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated. — Charlton Heston

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed-up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
—Thomas Sowell

To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the law abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless.— Lysander Spooner

“The Bill of Rights is largely a prescription for preventing government from restricting the flow of information and ideas. But the Founding Fathers did not foresee that tyranny by government might be superseded by another sort of problem altogether, namely, the corporate state, which through television now controls the flow of public discourse in America.”
― Neil Postman

“The only resource against usurpation is the inherent right of the people to prevent its exercise.”
– Supreme Court Justice James Iredell

“What is more scary than any particular candidate or policy is the gullibility of the public and their willingness to be satisfied with talking points, rather than serious arguments.” — Thomas Sowell

You can’t make an omelet without cracking some eggs and can’t turn the freest country in the world into a socialist dictatorship without burning the Constitution. -Wes Walker

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
-Voltaire

You have a right to defend yourselves. Be armed, be dangerous, and be moral.
-David Madison Cawthorn