Category: Quote O’ The Day

Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers.
This political judgement, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self preservation a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to God and Nature. – John Locke

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
– Yoshimi Ishikawa, Japanese journalist

Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave. – Andrew Fletcher

The possession of arms by the people is the ultimate warrant that government governs only with the consent of the governed.
– Jeffrey R. Snyder, in “A Nation of Cowards”

Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment.
We do not interpret constitutional rights that way.
Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997) , and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001) , the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.
–Justice Scalia; D.C v Heller, 2008

Blaming the gun for murder is like blaming the typewriter for libel
–unattributed

… ‘the people’ seems to have been a term of art employed in select parts of the Constitution. The Preamble declares that the Constitution is ordained, and established by ‘the people of the U.S.’ The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear Arms ….
– Supreme Court of the U.S., U.S. v. Uerdugo-Uriquidez (1990).

Banning guns makes for great theater but it does nothing to address the real problem of criminals and criminal behavior -Frank LoBiondo

Quote from a former head of the Secret Service, in response to Asst. Secy Ron Noble’s suggestion to combine BATF with Customs and Secret Service: “Mix dirty water with clean water, you get dirty water.”

Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom. — Charlie Reese

25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it’s crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half of the country;  so who is crazy?
— Andrew Ford

We shall soon have another decision. SCOTUS better make it good one.

Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right. –Bob Barr

I have seen an American general and his officers, without pay, and almost without clothes, living on roots and drinking water; and all for LIBERTY! What chance have we against such men! — British officer to Colonel Watson describing the American militia at Georgetown, SC

There is no such thing as the guilt or innocence of an entire nation. Guilt is, like innocence, not collective but personal. There is discovered or concealed individual guilt. There is guilt which people acknowledge or deny. All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone. We are all affected by the consequences and liable for it. We Germans must look truth straight in the eye – without embellishment and without distortion. There can be no reconciliation without remembrance.
–German President Richard von Weizsaecker 1985

As used in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the word “person” does not include the unborn……. In short, the unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons in the whole sense. 
– Supreme Court Justice Henry Blackmun, writing for the majority in Roe v Wade.

Just in case it was never made clear to you what the left wanted.

 

They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.
Alphonse Capone

Maybe, maybe not. But they can put you behind bars…………

“Osama bin Laden is dead, and the World Trade Center site is teeming with new life. Osama bin Laden is dead and lower Manhattan is pulsing with new activity. Osama bin Laden is dead, and New York City’s spirit has never been stronger.” – at the time, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg