Quote O’ The Day – Page 9

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
— Roman Emperor Tacitus

These Sarah Brady types must be educated to understand that because we have an armed citizenry, a dictatorship has not happened in America. These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies.
– Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

Carry a good gun with good ammo…everyday.
– AWR Hawkins

The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution is a five-volume collection compiled by Jonathan Elliot in the mid-19th century.

The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.
— Zachariah Johnson, 3 Elliot, Debates at 646

The history of liberty is the history of the limitations placed on the government.
— Woodrow Wilson

“Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens.
And that’s where the circle closes.
Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period.
Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them.”
— Charley Reese

“Any politician who won’t trust you with the weapon of your choice, clearly cannot be trusted with the power he desires over your life.”
– Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith

Those of us who harshly criticize Islamic terrorist groups are reflexively called ‘Islamophobic’ by leftists who inhabit an alternate reality where suicide bombers are simply misunderstood and the people they blow up probably had it coming to them.
– Stephen Kruiser

A state may not impose a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the federal constitution… The power to impose a license tax on the exercise of these freedoms is indeed as potent as the power of censorship which this Court has repeatedly struck down… a person cannot be compelled ‘to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the constitution.’
— MURDOCK V. PENNSYLVANIA 319 US 105 (1942)

The right to defend against unjust force underpins virtually all other human endeavors, and a no statute, norm, paradigm, or custom can deprive a human being of this most basic of rights.
-Toshiro Grendel

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither.
A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
ー Milton Friedman

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
— G. Gordon Liddy

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
– of all people
– Woodrow Wilson

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
—James Madison

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of anything he was never reasoned into.
–Jonathan Swift

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

If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
—Winston Churchill

“Smart” guns and “safety” locks aren’t meant to protect children. They’re meant to kill gun owners.
—Victor Milan

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo