Category: Quote O’ The Day

The American Colonies were all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country.

European countries should not be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason

A man may conduct himself well in both adversity and good fortune, but if you want to test his character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln

Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in…. It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress. -Augustin Theirry

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. – Winston Churchill

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” – Thomas Jefferson

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land. —William Kingdon Clifford

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun. – Theodore Roosevelt

“You know what? Israelis, the assault on the Israelis, people are losing sight of something. People saying that, ‘Oh, the response is gonna be too intense for what happened.’. Well, you don’t get to decide on the response when you do heinous things to civilians. You don’t get to say, ‘Oh, that’s enough, that’s enough retaliation.’ “ – Dee Snider

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can’t help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. ― Robert Heinlein

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” – Thomas Jefferson

“My country right or wrong; If right, to be kept right; if wrong to be set right.”
-Carl Schurz, Union general and U.S. senator from Missouri.

Guns have only two enemies: Rust and Politicians.

If you have a problem with law abiding citizens being armed, then you are the reason why law abiding citizens are armed.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
– Patrick Henry

Assault weapon: adjective;
1. A political term used by morons to describe a semi-automatic rifle (usually black in color) with certain cosmetic features in order to create fear in the uneducated.

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
— Edward Gibbon [On ancient Athens]

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
-Thomas Sowell

“It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone.  What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.” Marcus Aurelius

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
— Sun Tzu