Category: Quote O’ The Day

The Second Amendment was not written in isolation. It sits on the same foundation as every other right.
You do not get free speech if the state decides who may speak.
You do not get due process if the state decides who is dangerous.
You do not get bodily autonomy if the state decides what is “reasonable.”
When one amendment is treated as optional, the rest follow.

History is clear.

Governments do not restrain themselves. They are restrained when they hit resistance. The Constitution is a package deal. You either defend all of it, or you lose it piece by piece. Rights do not exist because the government allows them. Rights exist because the people already had them.
– John “TIG” Tiegen Semper Fi

 “All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise… from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation”. – John Adams

“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.” ― George Washington

 

 

If you lack a gun, any attacker (with nearly any weapon) is your master. But if you have a gun, you can make him sorry that he attacked in the first place.
– AWR Hawkins

“There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule—executions without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses—the nationalization or expropriation of private property—and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.”
– Ayn Rand

To anti-gunners, nothing can be a “gun ban” unless literally every model of gun is banned – Rob Romano

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
— THOMAS PAINE

No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.
— W. Emerson Wright

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
— Milton Friedman

“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
– William F. Buckley, Jr.

“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.”
– John Locke, 2nd Treatise on Government.

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
–William F. Buckley

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
– attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto IJN

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill

Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the U.S. are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts – Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
— Abraham Lincoln

I was born with something inside me that refuses to settle for average,
and I am grateful for it. – unknown.

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.
— George Will