Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-04-05 Apr 5, 2018The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.~ James BovardThe Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.~ Judge Alex KozinskiIf men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.~ Samuel Adams Apr 4, 2018Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.~ Ronald ReaganIf you own your life, then you have the right to defend yourself against anyone who would deprive you of it. ... And, if you have the right of self-defense, it follows that you have the right to act ... to obtain means appropriate to that defense. That brings us to firearms, particularly the handgun, which so many people would outlaw. The handgun has been called the equalizer ..., and for good reason. It affords smaller, weaker people the chance to defend themselves against bigger, stronger people who threaten them. Handguns offer the otherwise defenseless a convenient, practical, inexpensive method of safeguarding themselves and their families. Banishing handguns -- even if the big and strong were also denied them -- would leave the small and the weak defenseless.~ Sheldon RichmanA just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.~ Sir Francis Bacon Apr 3, 2018Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don’t see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.~ Alan DershowitzThe Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.~ George WillGovernment is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.~ John Adams Apr 2, 2018And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.~ Jesus of NazarethIn order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonEvery happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.~ Malcolm Muggeridge Mar 30, 2018The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.~ U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Sec. 2The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.~ U.S. Constitution, Ninth AmendmentThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.~ U.S. Constitution, Tenth Amendment Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print