Quote O’ The Day – Page 8

“…The right of the people peacefully to assemble for lawful purposes existed long before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. In fact, it is and always has been one of the attributes of a free government.

It `derives its source,’ to use the language of Chief Justice Marshall, in Gibbons v Ogden, 9 Wheat., 211, `from those laws whose authority is acknowledged by civilized man throughout the world.‘

It is found wherever civilization exists. It was not, therefore, a right granted to the people by the Constitution… The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of `bearing arms for a lawful purpose.’ This is not a right granted by the constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.”
– U.S. v. Cruikshank (1875)

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective for the abuse of constitutional power.
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to W.C. Jarvis, 1820.

Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him, and later he won’t listen to you at any range. — Auliq Ice

Nowhere else in the Constitution does a “right” attributed to “the people” refer to anything other than an individual right
–Justice Scalia; D.C v Heller, 2008

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. — Justice Louis Brandeis

The dirty little secret of the anti-gun lobby is that gun laws have never been effective in reducing violence. In fact, the reverse may be true..
— Michael S. Brown

“What a glorious morning for America!”
Samuel Adams, on hearing the gunfire of the battle at Lexington, 1775

“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
John Parker, Captain of the Lexington Militia, to his company facing British troops on Lexington Common Green.

Almost everyday someone on MSNBC wets himself over the fact a free citizen somewhere is carrying a gun. Their proposed solution: the State should better enforce its monopoly on violence. — Jonah Goldberg

In a way, the continuing gun control controversy is much like the prohibition problem in Oklahoma in the fifties and sixties. It was the belief of many that prohibitionists and bootleggers were united in their efforts to prevent the legal sale of alcoholic beverages. In gun control, those who can afford private alarm systems and bodyguards are united with criminals in their desire to keep guns out of the hands of honest citizens.
— Bill Dannenmaier

“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
― D.H. Lawrence

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy. — Thomas Sowell

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is a distinction between a freeman and slave.
— James Burgh

When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state…this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people. –P. J. O’Rourke

Having Constitutional Carry is rapidly becoming the bright line that separates free states from those run by would-be totalitarians. – Streiff

For some reason I’m thinking a country that kills its own citizens by the thousands for defying them & screams “Death to America” may not possess the ability to “Negotiate in good faith”. Excuse me for my lack of optimism

Why do you carry a gun? Because carrying a cop is too heavy.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. – Thomas Sowell

If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government that is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. — James Madison