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We feel that an American citizen of voting age and good character should have the right to purchase without restriction a handgun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, or like item without interference by a government body. -- National Police Officers' Association of America

In Defense Of Freedom ... (more) -- National Press Club

There's no valid evidence whatsoever to indicate that depriving law-abiding American citizens of the right to own firearms would in any way lessen crime or criminal activity. ... The National Sheriffs Association unequivocally opposes any legislation that has as its intent the confiscation of firearms ... or the taking away from law-abiding American citizens their right to purchase, own, and keep arms. -- National Sheriffs Association

We ask that government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within the confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: ... an end to the power of financial interest. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand ... the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our system of public education.... We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents.... The government must undertake the improvement of public health -- by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor -- by the greatest possible support for all groups concerned with the physical education of youth. [W]e combat the ... materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before the Individual Good. -- National Socialist Party of Germany (NAZI)

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt about a tragedy. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.” The grandson asked him, “Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?” The grandfather answered, “The one I feed.” -- Native American Story

The German woman does not smoke! -- Nazi slogan

All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent and unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and the right to keep and bear arms for security or defense of self, family, home and others, and for lawful common defense, hunting, recreational use, and all other lawful purposes, and such rights shall not be denied or infringed by the state or any subdivision thereof. -- Nebraska Constitution

Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. -- Suzanne Necker

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. -- Richard J. Needham

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. -- Thomas Neill

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. -- Harriet Nelson

Gold is still the ultimate store of wealth. It's the world's only true money. And there isn't much of it to go around. All of it ever mined would fit into a small building - a 56 foot cube. The annual world production would fit into a 14 foot cube, roughly the size of an ordinary living room. If each Chinese citizen were to buy just one ounce, it would take up the annual supply for the next 200 years. -- Mark Nestmann

No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state. -- New Mexico Constitution

It is our opinion that an ordinance may not deny the people the constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms, and to that extent the ordinance under consideration is void. -- New Mexico Court of Appeals

If the New World Order agenda is not realized by the terrorist attacks on America and if Americans don’t agree to give up their weapons and relinquish their sovereignty to the New World Order, the next attack will be the use of chemical, biological and/or atomic warfare against the American people. The architects of the New World Order will not hesitate to use as a last resort an atomic or hydrogen bomb in a major American city. -- New York Times

[The Income Tax is] a vicious, inequitable, unpopular, impolitic and socialist act. -- New York Times

Crime does not pay...as well as politics. -- Alfred E. Newman

I have a great deal of sympathy for people who run the printing presses. They are screwed. -- Craig Newmark

... absolutely we see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern. -- Gavin Newsom

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come. -- Huey P. Newton

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. -- Huey P. Newton

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. -- Huey P. Newton

Before 1776 America was a British colony. The British Government had certain laws and rules that the colonized Americans rejected as not being in their best interests. In spite of the British conviction that Americans had no right to establish their own laws to promote the general welfare of the people living here in America, the colonized immigrant felt he had no choice but to raise the gun to defend his welfare. Simultaneously he made certain laws to ensure his protection from external and internal aggressions, from other governments, and his own agencies. One such form of protection was the Declaration of Independence, which states: '... whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.' Now these same colonized White people, these bondsmen, paupers, and thieves deny the colonized Black man not only the right to abolish this oppressive system, but to even speak of abolishing it. -- Huey P. Newton

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. -- Huey P. Newton

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. -- Huey P. Newton

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. -- Huey P. Newton

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively -- I am one with the people. -- Huey P. Newton

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. -- Huey P. Newton

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. -- Huey P. Newton

If you stop struggling, then you stop life. -- Huey P. Newton

We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked. -- Huey P. Newton

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. -- Huey P. Newton

Off the Pigs! -- Huey P. Newton

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life. -- Huey P. Newton

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down... The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. -- Huey P. Newton

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. -- Huey P. Newton

The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation. -- Huey P. Newton

Any 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. Newton

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community. -- Huey P. Newton

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. -- Sir Isaac Newton

I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. -- Issac Newton

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As a first-time drug law offender, I was sentenced to 27 non-parolable years in prison. The amount of time was based on liquid waste found in the garage and unprocessed chemicals. There were no drugs. -- David A. Nichols

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living. -- Reverend Martin Niemoeller

In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me. -- Reverend Martin Niemoeller

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out. -- Reverend Martin Niemoeller

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have a strong enough why you can bear almost any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

People demand freedom only when they have no power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Belief means not wanting to know what is true. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual … who … can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: `I, the state, am the people.'... Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word “justice” into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason... and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. -- Chester W. Nimitz

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. -- Swami Nirmalananda

There are…certain freedoms that are like circuses. Their very existence, so long as they are individual and enjoyed chiefly individually as by spectators, diverts men’s mind from the loss of other, more fundamental, social and economic and political rights. -- Robert Nisbet

What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life. -- Robert Nisbet

Very commonly in ages when civil rights of one kind are in evidence – those pertaining to freedom of speech and thought in, say, theater, press, and forum, with obscenity and libel laws correspondingly loosened – very real constrictions of individual liberty take place in other, more vital areas: political organization, voluntary association, property, and the right to hold jobs, for example. -- Robert Nisbet

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings. -- Richard M. Nixon

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. -- Richard M. Nixon

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? -- Richard M. Nixon

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. -- Richard M. Nixon

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