Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-04-10 Apr 10, 2018A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.~ Thomas JeffersonThe enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.~ William Ralph IngeIf someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.~ Dalai Lama Apr 9, 2018I have no reason to suppose, that he, who would take away my liberty, would not, when he had me in his power, take away every thing else.~ John LockeSelf-defence is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself...~ John LockeWhosoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.~ John Locke Apr 6, 2018It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.~ Charles de MontesquieuThe great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.~ Patrick HenryBut to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.~ Jeffrey R. Snyder 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print