Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-02-11 Feb 11, 2013Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.~ Lisa DelpitEvery person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state.~ Michigan ConstitutionThis is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.~ Nicholas Kristof Feb 8, 2013Thus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt...~ Benjamin Constant Feb 7, 2013The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.~ Marcus Aurelius AntoninusWar is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.~ Thomas JeffersonWar is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.~ William Tecumseh Sherman Feb 6, 2013Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.~ Henry David ThoreauAn efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.~ James MadisonBy the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.~ Jonathan Swift Feb 5, 2013And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.~ Sir William BlackstoneEvery citizen has a right to keep and bear arms; and this right shall never be questioned.~ Maine ConstitutionTo 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print