At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
David Lloyd George, British prime minister
Only to be surpassed by World War 2 in destruction and casualties.
Extract from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright
Monticello in Virginia. June 5. 1824.
…the constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, both fact and law, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed…
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
Mahatma Ghandi
When law and morality contradict each other the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect for the law.
— Frederick Bastiat
The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.
-Heather Wilson
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Lest anyone forget just exactly how they think of us, our rights and the protections of the Constitution and Bill of Rights that restrict their tyrant dreams
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. —Bill Clinton
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?— Ronald Reagan
You are bound to meet misfortune if you are unarmed because, among other reasons, people despise you.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Is it good to have democracy? Is it good to dumb culture down to the lowest common denominator? Is it good to have religion as a state religion or as a coercive mechanism to instill good behavior? All of these things that we wrestle with today were discussed by people who in some ways were not confused by technology, they were empirical. They just wrote down the world that they saw.
Victor Davis Hanson
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that `if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.’ It is a very serious consideration…that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.
–Samuel Adams, 1771
We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob.
– Theodore Roosevelt
I am the first responder because my only other option is to be the first victim.
-Karl Denninger
How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.
— Suzanna Gratia Hupp
That America is an exceptional nation is unclear only to one who has not been taught its true history. It ceases to be exceptional only when its representative leaders cease to be exceptional. America, it has been said, is a nation of laws, not of men. The more it becomes a nation of men, the less it remains America.
-Ron Brackin
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
— THOMAS JEFFERSON
One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw the left as the voice of the common man. Nothing could be further from the truth.
-Thomas Sowell
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. — Justice Learned Hand
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. — Thomas Payne
