Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-12-22 Dec 22, 2009No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.~ Helen KellerGovernment…may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another… The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality…~ Abe FortasFreedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.~ James Madison Dec 21, 2009Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels.~ Hazrat Inayat KhanThe relative openness or closedness of a mind cuts across specific content; that is, it is not restricted to any one particular ideology, or religion, or philosophy, or scientific viewpoint.~ Milton RokeachIf we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow it wherever the search may lead us.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Dec 18, 2009How should it happen that the individual should be without rights, but the combination of individuals should possess unlimited rights?~ Auberon HerbertPlace your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.~ Robert A. Heinlein...and by the way, Mr.Speaker, the Second Amendment is not for killing little ducks and leaving Huey and Dewey and Louie without an aunt and uncle. It's for hunting politicians, like in Grozny, and in the colonies in 1776, or when they take your independence away.~ Robert Dornan Dec 17, 2009A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.~ James MadisonThe maintenance of the right to bear arms is a most essential one to every free people and should not be whittled down by technical constructions.~ State vs. KernerTo prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm ... is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.~ Wilson v. State Dec 16, 2009The tragedy of the police state is that it always regards all opposition as a crime, and there are no degrees.~ Robert Gilbert VansittartSuch questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship.~ Stephen P. HalbrookThe right is general. It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent. The militia, as has been explained elsewhere, consists of those persons who, under the law, are liable to the performance of military duty, and are officered and enrolled for service when called upon. . . . [I]f the right were limited to those enrolled, the purpose of the guarantee might be defeated altogether by the action or the neglect to act of the government it was meant to hold in check. The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for that purpose.~ Thomas Cooley Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print