Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-12-27 Dec 27, 2012An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.~ Mark Van DorenSome who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.~ Khalil GibranI know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery Dec 26, 2012Laissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme. (Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.)~ French SayingFreedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.~ John BarbourThe market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process.~ Ludwig von Mises Dec 25, 2012A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.~ Vladimir Ilyich LeninAny unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.~ Huey P. NewtonThe most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.~ Adolf Hitler Dec 24, 2012Since independence in the fourteenth century, the Swiss have been required to keep and bear arms, and since 1515, have had a policy of armed neutrality. Its form of government is similar to the one set up by our Founders -- a weak central government exercising few, defined powers having to do mostly with external affairs and limited authority over internal matters at the canton (state) and local levels.~ Benedict D. LaRosaThose who have sought the most in gun control have sought the least in the punishment of criminals.~ Robert J. KuklaIn recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.~ Steven P. Halbrook Dec 21, 2012Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith and Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed.~ Lt. Lowell DuckettTo preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.~ Richard Henry LeeSwitzerland, on the other hand, insists that every male of military age must keep a powerful, fully automatic assault rifle in his home. Every home must be armed -- by law -- and some even keep mortars. Yet Switzerland has one of the most law-abiding citizenry, the lowest crime rate, and least violence of any country in the free world. And it has remained free for over a thousand years. Compare it to New York and Washington where handguns are completely banned. In fact, in Washington, Chief of Police Maurice Turner recently said that the District of Columbia gun ban law had completely failed, and he has called for armed citizen's police auxiliary to help restore order.~ Donald S. McAlvaney Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print