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ALABAMA CONSTITUTION – That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty and property, and when government assumes other functions, it is usurpation and oppression. - article I. Confucius - To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. Copernicus, Nicholaus (1473-1543. Polish astronomer) - Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity... - 1525 Cottrol, Robert J, and Raymond T. Diamond (Robert Cottrol a professor at Rutgers School of Law and George Washington University; Raymond Diamond is a professor of law at Tulane University School of Law – both are members of the ACLU and the NAACP) – We have, in the twentieth century, seen the rise of monstrous states capable of deprivations of liberty far in excess of anything that the English Whigs who authored the Declaration of Rights of 1689—or their American successors in 1791— could have envisioned. ... That, in light of the history of the twentieth century, those we rely on for serious constitutional and political commentary have failed to examine the issues of whether the state should have a monopoly of force and whether an armed population might still play an important role in deterring government excesses bespeaks a dangerous intellectual cowardice, a self-imposed limit on political and constitutional discourse that causes us largely to ignore one of the most critical questions of our time. - Book Review. The Fifth Auxiliary Right, 104 YALE L.J. 995, 1025-26 (1994), a review of Dr. Joyce Lee Malcolm’s TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS: THE ORIGIN OF AN ANGLO-AMERICAN RIGHT (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), Dr. Malcolm is a professor of history at Bentley College. Cottrol, Robert J., and Raymond T. Diamond - [A] society with a dismal record of protecting a people has a dubious claim on the right to disarm them. - The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration, 80 GEO. L. J. 309, 361 (1991). Crane, Edward H. - Today, a potential citizen legislator sees few open seats, knows that odds are 10-1 he’ll lose against an incumbent, and that even if he did win he’d have to serve a long time to have much influence. Real term limits—six years in the house—would change that dynamic. - Can Washington Change?, REASON, p. 23, August/September 1996. Cummings, Homer S. (U.S. Attorney General) – [W]e have no inherent police powers to go into certain localities and deal with local crime. - National Firearms Act: Hearings on H.R. 9066, Before the House Committee on Ways and Means, 73d Cong., 2d Sess. 6 (1934). DELAWARE CONSTITUTION - A person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of self, family, home and state, and for hunting and recreational use. - article I, section 20. DeLolme, Jean L. (1740-1807; Swiss constitutional scholar and historian, migrated to England) - The power of the people is not when they strike, but when they keep in awe: it is when they can overthrow everything, that they never need to move.... - 1775, THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND, at 219 (John MacGregor ed., London, J. Cuthell 1853). Deressa, Yonas – [T]he World Bank has contributed as much to agricultural disaster in Ethiopia as the governments themselves. - President, Ethiopian Refugees Education and Relief Foundation. Dowlut, Robert – [A]n insincere interpretation of the Second Amendment and its state equivalents has led to the militia movement and has eroded respect for American government. - Arms: A Right to Self-Defense Against Criminals and Despots, 8 STANFORD L. & POL’Y REV. 25,25 (1997). Einstein, Albert - The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Euripides (480? – 406 B.C., Greek dramatist)– A slave is he who cannot speak his thought. French, Douglas E. (Vice President for commercial real estate lending for a bank in Las Vegas, NV) - All that central banks offer are currencies that lose value—the best depreciate quickly (50 percent in 20 years for the German Bundesbank from 1971 to 1991), the worst lose their value virtually overnight. I’ll take free banking and a gold standard outside government any time. - Book Review: The Central Banks, THE FREEMAN p. 841, December, 1996. Friedman, Milton - What you have to do to have a change is not simply elect the right people, but to change the institutional arrangement so the incentives which they have are different. If you’re a member of Congress today, what’s your main incentive? Your main incentive is to get reelected .... If you’re in there for only six years, as would be the maximum [with term limits] ... your main incentive is not going to be to get reelected. Your main incentive is going to be to try to achieve for the country what you got elected for. ... The short term limit would attract a different kind of candidate. It would not be attractive to those who would like to be professional politicians. But it will be attractive to a large number of people who would like to spend a few years promoting the public interest, the citizen representative. - October 27, 1995, made to a gathering of U.S. Term Limits donors in San Francisco. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948; Indian nationalist, known as Mahatma) - I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. - Young India, August 11, 1920; quoted by Louis Fischer THE ESSENTIAL INDIA pp 156-57. Gawain, Shatki - Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. -Shakti Gawain, teacher and author - (b. 1948) Hamilton, Alexander - The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the state except when called out; a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call. - THE FEDERALIST No. 28. Hart, Roswell (Representative from New York in the Reconstruction Congress – [Our form of government is one whose citizens] shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of other citizens;” where “no law shall be made prohibiting the free exercise of religion;” where “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;” where “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,” and where “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. CONG. GLOBE, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. 1629 (1866). Heinlein, Robert A. - .. I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals...I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose. - in a 1949 letter concerning RED PLANET Heinlein, Robert A. - Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. Heinlein, Robert A. - Censorship is never logical but, like cancer, it is dangerous to ignore when it shows up. Heinlein, Robert A. - No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. Hornberger, Jacob G. – Political killings of innocent people could never happen in America, our fellow citizens tell us. America is a democracy. but so was Nazi Germany. Hitler was popularly elected, and his economic policies were widely favored and acclaimed (by Germans and Americans!) - The Nazi Mind-Set in America, THE TYRANNY OF GUN CONTROL, 59-60 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997). Hornberger, Jacob G. (founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation) - What Americans fail (or refuse) to recognize is that the concentration camps were simply the logical extension of the Nazi mindset! It does not matter whether there were six million killed—or six hundred —or six—or even one. The evil—the terrible, black evil—is the belief that a government should have the power to sacrifice even one individual for the good of the nation. Once this basic philosophical premise and political power are conceded, innocent people, beginning with a few and inevitably ending in multitudes, will be killed, because “the good of the nation” always ends up requiring it. - THE UNREPORTED NEWS, August 13, 1995; The Nazi Mind-Set in America, THE TYRANNY OF GUN CONTROL, 59 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997). Jefferson, Thomas - I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. Jefferson, Thomas - The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state, but that wall is a one directional wall; it keeps the government from running the church, but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government. - address to the Danbury Baptists, January 1, 1802. Johnson, Helen - Unified Civil Disobedience, applied to unconstitutional law, is an effective deterrent of attempted tyranny. - June, 1995. Kinsley, Michael (lawyer-activist, co-host on CNN’s Crossfire) – The purpose of the First Amendment’s free-speech guarantee was pretty clearly to protect political discourse. But liberals reject the notion that free speech is therefore limited to political topics, even broadly defined. True, that purpose is not inscribed in the amendment itself. But why leap to the conclusion that the broadly worded constitutional freedom (“the right of the people to keep and bear arms”) is narrowly limited by its stated purpose, unless you’re trying to explain it away? My New Republic colleague Mickey Kaus says that if liberals interpreted the Second Amendment the way they interpret the rest of the Bill of Rights, there would be law professors arguing that gun ownership is mandatory. - WASHINGTON POSt, January 8, 1990. Kleck, Dr. Gary (criminologist, professor, Florida State University) - They must believe in the existence of a substantial number of persons who are willing and able to break serious laws such as those prohibiting murder, assault, and robbery, yet who are not willing or able to break gun control laws. - POINT BLANK: GUNS AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA. Kolko, Gabriel – The entire banking reform movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked ideologically and personally, with one another. - THE TRIUMPH OF CONSERVATISM. Kopel, David B.(lawyer, Research director-Independence Institute, Golden Colorado; Associate Policy Analyst - Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.; B.A. 1982, Brown University; J.D. 1985, Univ. of Michigan, author) - To assert that constitutional protections only extend to the technologies in existence in 1791 ... would be to claim that the First Amendment only protects the right to write with quill pens and not with computers, and that the fourth Amendment only protects the right to freedom from unreasonable searches in log cabins and not in homes made from high-tech synthetics. Does “freedom of the press” in the Constitution’s First Amendment, and its state counterparts, apply only to printing presses “of the sort” in use in 1789? Are printing technologies that rely on lead type protected, while xerographic processes are not? Is a pamphlet distributed on floppy diskette or through electronic mail unprotected? Should the Supreme court hold that presses capable of printing thousands of pages of libels per hour are not protected? The Constitution does not protect particular physical objects, such as quill pens, muskets, or log cabins. Instead, the Constitution defines a relationship between individuals and the government that applies to every new technology. - Article: A Tale of Three Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in State Supreme Courts, 68 Temple L. Rev. 1177 (Fall 1995). Kopel, David -Imagine that the year is 1900. You are told that within fifty years, a nation in the world will kill over six million members of a religious minority. Which nation would you pick? If you were well-informed about world affairs, it is very unlikely that you would pick Germany. In 1900, Germany was a democratic, progressive nation. Jews living there enjoyed fuller acceptance in society than they did in Britain, France or the United States. - commenting on whether a tyrannical or genocidal government could occur in America in Book Review: LETHAL LAWS. by Jay Simpkin, Aaron Zelman, & Alan M. Rice, Jews for The Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc., 2872 South Wentworth Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53207, (414) 769-0760, 15 N.Y.L. SCH. J. INT’L & COMP. L. 355, 383 (1995). Lao-Tzu – I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. - TAO TE CHING. Lao-Tzu – If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts and the world will govern itself. - TAO TE CHING (Circa 6th Century B.C.). Lao-Tzu – Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is enlightenment. Lao-Tzu – The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Lao-Tzu – There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong, there is nothing that can take precedence of it. - TAO TE CHING Lao-Tzu – When taxes are too high, people go hungry. - TAO TE CHING. Lao-Tzu – When you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. LaPierre, Wayne – Nothing erodes the spirit of the American people more than the constant fear that at any moment their home may be invaded or that they may be attacked or killed. The best schools are of little value to the child who walks to school in fear of juvenile gangs in his or her neighborhood. The resources of the best hospitals and health care system are squandered on the repair of the damage inflicted by chronic offenders who daily stalk new victims. The best transportation systems become rivers of death when car-jackers or drive-by shooters can roam our streets with virtual impunity. The best neighborhoods and the most vibrant local businesses deteriorate and are ruined when crime drives neighbors and customers behind locked doors. Yet this sorry picture describes the situation in community after community across our country. - GUNS, CRIME AND FREEDOM, p. 115. LaRosa, Benedict D. – Let’s face it, the only reason for gun registration is eventual gun confiscation. And the only reason behind gun confiscation is eventual tyranny. - Gun control: A Historical Perspective, THE TYRANNY OF GUN CONTROL, 53 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997). Law Enforcement Alliance of America - The Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA) ... actively works to promote the right of responsible citizens to purchase, own, carry and use firearms for personal protection. LEAA believes every community’s safety and welfare depends upon a relationship of trust and co-operation between law enforcement and responsible citizens. ... LEAA believes firearms in the hands of responsible citizens threaten only criminals. - (LEAA, (703) 847-COPS, (800) 766-8578, 7700 Leesburg Pike, Suite 421, Falls Church , VA 22043). Lund, Nelson (Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law; Ph.D. 1981 Harvard University; J.D. 1985 University of Chicago) – A well regulated stock market being necessary to the prosperity of a free state, the right of the people to set the prices at which they buy and sell securities shall not be infringed. - The Past and Future of the Individual’s Right to Bear Arms, 31 GA LAW REV. 1, 25 (1996). Mathews, J. B. (Former chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities) - I challenge the illusion that the U.N. is an instrument of peace. It could not be less of a cruel hoax if it had been organized in Hell for the sole purpose of aiding and abetting the destruction of the United States. Mises, Professor Ludwig von - What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. Paul, Dr. Ron – Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity. Government and Racism, April 16, 2007 Paul, Dr. Ron – We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars. - Republican debate in Des Moines, Iowa, August 5, 2007 Paul, Dr. Ron – We go about the world, fighting to spread democracy and tell them how to live, but we really don't have a democratic system... The laws have been made to make it very difficult, because the Republicans and the Democrats aren't looking for the competition, they want to monopolize it. So in many ways, we are less democratic than some other systems, where they have multiple parties, and more people represented than they're able to be represented here. - Interview by Laura Knoy on NHPR, June 5, 2007 Philodemos [pseudonym, revolutionary war era writer] - Every freeman has a right to the use of the press, so he has to the use of his arms. - PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, May 7, 1788, at 3, col. 2. Pitt, William, Sr. - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. - January 14, 1766 Pitt, William, Sr. (1st Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778) - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms--never—never—never! You cannot conquer America. - November 18, 1777 speech to the House of Lords. Quayle, Vice President Dan – Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana. ... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society. Rabkin, Jeremy (Department of Government professor at Cornell University) - Enthusiasm for armed citizens was not, even in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, based on the notion that such citizens could defeat professional armies on their own. The serious argument was always that armed citizens could raise the cost of tyrannical abuse—enough, at least, to give second thought to would-be tyrants. Clearly, armed citizens continue to give pause to far better armed governments even in the age of nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles. The most advanced and powerful arsenal in the world was insufficient to provide the United States government with confidence to keep its troops in the field against armed civilians in Somalia. Britain was forced to the negotiating table with terrorists in Northern Ireland and the government of Israel felt obliged to enter negotiations with the terrorist P.L.O., not because these governments could not win an all out war against armed civilians but because they did not wish to continue paying the costs of containing their violence. - BOOK REVIEW: Constitutional Firepower: New Light on the Meaning of the Second Amendment To Keep and Bear Arms, The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, 86 J. CRIM. L. 231 (1995). Rand, Ayn – Any alleged “right” of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. - MAN’S RIGHTS. Rand, Ayn - But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich —will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt—and of his life, as he deserves. - ATLAS SHRUGGED, p. 385 (1957) Rand, Ayn - As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority. Rand, Ayn - Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions—and you’ll learn that man’s mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth. - ATLAS SHRUGGED, p. 383 (1957). Rand, Ayn – I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. Rand, Ayn - Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men’s vices or men’s stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment’s or a penny’s worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you’ll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? - ATLAS SHRUGGED, p. 384 (1957) Rand, Ayn – The term “individual rights” is a redundancy: there is no other kind of rights and no one else to possess them. - MAN’S RIGHTS. Rand, Ayn (1905-1982, born and raised in a Jewish family in Russia as Alissa Rosenbaum, migrated alone to America in 1926 at the age of twentyone, she later became a U.S. citizen and wrote ATLAS SHRUGGED, THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, INTRODUCTION TO OBJECTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY, FOR THE NEW INTELLECTUAL, ANTHEM, THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS, and CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL) - There can be no compromise on the basic principles or on fundamental issues. What would you regard as a “compromise” between life and death? Or between truth and falsehood? Or between reason and irrationality? ... There can be no compromise on moral principles. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. - quoted in Are you offended, or just a coward?, THE UNREPORTED NEWS p. 10, November 16, 1995. Reese, Charlie - The only hope for peace in the long run is for a world of independent nations which respect each other’s sovereignty. A world run by an international government would be a world constantly at war. - CONSERVATIVE CHRONICLE, September 27, 1995. Reynolds, Glenn Harlan – I am sublimely indifferent to the question of whether the availability of guns leads to crime as I am to the question of whether pornography causes sexual offenses. In either case, the Constitution has spoken, and that is enough. Such consequential concerns may be relevant to, say, the question of whether to repeal the First or Second Amendments, but they should certainly have no role in how we may interpret or apply them. - A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment, 67 TENN. L.R. 461, 484 (1995). Reynolds, Glenn Harlan – Indeed, the very fact that our century’s many government-sponsored killing sprees are far beyond what the Framers might have imagined suggests that the right to keep and bear arms exists not simply to deal with such worst-case scenarios, but also to deal with lesser instances of tyranny. - A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment, 67 TENN. L.R. 461, 505 (1995). Reynolds, Glenn Harlan (Assoc. Prof. of Law, Univ. of Tenn.; B.A. 1982 Univ. of Tenn., J.D. 1985, Yale Law School) – All power originates in the people as the ultimate sovereigns. - The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Under the Tennessee Constitution, A Case Study in Civic Republican Thought, 61 TENN. L. R. 647, 652 (1994). Reynolds, Glenn Harlan (Associates Professor of Law, University of Tennessee, J.D. Yale Law School 1985, B.A. Univ. of Tenn. 1982) – [T]he right to keep and bear arms is not subordinate to the purpose of having a militia—the notion of a “well regulated militia” is subordinate to the purpose of having an armed citizenry. - A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment, 62 TENN. L. R. 461, 473 (1995). Royko, Mike (syndicated columnist) - If every woman in every big, high-crime community in America had a gun in her purse or strapped to her thigh, we would have a safer, more courteous society. - When Miss Manners ought to be packing heat, THE WASHINGTON TIMES National Weekly Edition, p. 33, June 23, 1996. Ruiz, Jaime (senior advisor to Columbian President) – From the Columbian point of view, [legalization] is the easy solution. I mean, just legalize it and we won’t have any more problems. Probably in five years we wouldn’t even have guerillas. No problems. We [would] have a great country with no problems. - September 6, 2000, OTTAWA CITIZEN. Rummel, Rudolf J. - Power kills; absolute Power kills absolutely. Rummel, Rudolf J. - Democide is committed by absolute Power; its agency is government. - DEATH BY GOVERNMENT (Transaction Press 1994). Rummel, Rudolf J. - Putting the human cost of war and democide together, Power has killed over 203 million people in this century. ... Even if all to be said about absolute Power was that it causes war and the attendant slaughter of the young and the most capable ... this would be enough. But much worse even without the excuse of combat, Power also massacres in cold blood those helpless people it controls—in fact, several times more of them. - DEATH BY GOVERNMENT (Transaction Press 1994). Russo, Aaron (Hollywood producer) – My principles are freedom for all people... I’m trying to wake up Hollywood. It’s been a bastion of freedom but they’re being deceived, suckered into this indoctrination of the federal government which is leading toward a totalitarian country. They’ve lost sight of individual liberty. - DAILY VARIETY. Ruwart, Dr. Mary J. – [W]e tax our neighbors at gunpoint, if necessary to provide foreign aid. Most of this money goes for security assistance to underdeveloped nations. To keep Third World governments friendly toward us instead of aligning with the Soviets, we’ve supported dictators such as Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines), Sergeant Samuel Doe (Liberia), Mobutu Seko (Zaire), and Zia ul-Haq (Pakistan), to name a few. Much of this assistance was used to suppress the citizenry from protesting domestic policies of aggression. For example, almost three-fourths of U.S. aid to El Salvador during the early 1980s went to support the government’s war against protesting civilians. The Shah of Iran’s cruel Savak and Idi Amin’s “public safety unit” for internal security were trained with our help. In Latin America in the 1970s, U.S. foreign aid was given to nations with the worst human rights violations. - HEALING OUR WORLd, Ch 18. Ruwart, Dr. Mary J. – New Zealand, Switzerland, and Israel have more gun ownership than the United States, yet in all these countries, homicides are less frequent. On the other hand, the District of Columbia has the toughest antigun laws in the nation, yet it has become the murder capital of the United States. - HEALING OUR WORLD, Ch 16. Ruwart, Dr. Mary J. – Paternal desertion is encouraged in many states because aid is unavailable to a woman if the father of her child lives with her. Industrious individuals who take jobs find their welfare benefits abruptly terminated and their net income lower than before. - HEALING OUR WORLD, Ch 11. Ruwart, Dr. Mary J. - Switzerland, a country historically dedicated to neutrality, has a strong defense against armed invasion. Switzerland has a part-time national government and no nuclear capability, yet sometime in the 1990s, it will have bomb shelters for every man, woman, and child. Every man is part of the army and is required to keep his military weapon in his home. An invading army would literally have to subdue every household to conquer that nation. Indeed, in both World Wars, when the Germans threatened to invade, the Swiss simply dissuaded them by inviting key German officers to witness their preparedness! The Germans had been considering a short-cut through non-mountainous regions of the tiny country. The Germans, however, decided against invading “the little porcupine.” A non-aggressive nation could easily and affordably develop a Swiss-style defense, without the aggression of taxation or the universal draft that the Swiss use. - HEALING OUR WORLD, Ch 20. Ruwart, Dr. Mary J. – The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) claims that the CIA has attempted to interfere with 27 prosecutions of drug dealers acting as CIA informants. - HEALING OUR WORLD, Ch 20. Ruwart, Dr. Mary J. – The housing problem that generates homelessness has been linked to the aggression of rent control, zoning restrictions, building codes, and construction moratoriums, all of which limit the availability of inexpensive housing. When construction is limited and landlords can charge only a minimal rent, they naturally rent only to the most affluent tenants, rather than the poor who might be late in their payments. Once again, aggression hurts those it is supposed to help. - HEALING OUR WORLD, Ch 11. Ruwart, Dr. Mary J. – The War on Drugs kills more people than the drugs themselves! - Healing Our World, Ch 15. Ruwart, Dr. Mary J. - U.S. citizens are taxed at gunpoint, if necessary to fund the World Bank. The Bank, in turn, lends Third World countries money for development projects that frequently promote environmental degradation. Forests were destroyed to build subsidized dams in Brazil and India and cattle ranches in Botswana. Poorly managed irrigation projects have resulted in millions of hectares becoming flooded, waterlogged, and salinated. ... Why does our government keep giving such destructive aid in our name and with our tax dollars? Of every aid dollar, 82 cents is spent on American products. Thus, the aid programs are really a transfer of wealth from the American taxpayer and the Third World poor to Americanbased multinational firms. Like any special interest group, these firms have a strong influence on our representatives, because they can commit large amounts of money to the campaign chests of those who serve them best. - HEALING OUR WORLD, Ch 18. Smith, L. Neil – A wise man once pointed out that the American eagle eats carrion, never picks on anything its own size, and will soon be extinct. That being so, perhaps Americans ought to select a symbol more in keeping with their current conditions, like a milked cow, a sheared sheep, a plucked chicken, or a slaughtered steer. - PALLAS, 339 (Tor 1993). Smith, L. Neil – Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. - THE PROBABILITY BROACH, 129 (Tor 1980). Smith, Paul E, M.D. – [The FDA] is a chimerical beast, half politicians practicing medicine and half doctors practicing politics that cannot be reformed, but must be destroyed. Smith, Winston - There would not be so many anti-government Americans if our government was not anti-American. Snyder, Jeffrey R. - The handgun is the only weapon that would give a lone female jogger a chance of prevailing against a gang of thugs intent on rape, a teacher a chance of protecting children at recess from a madman intent on massacring them, a family of tourists waiting at a mid-town subway station the means to protect themselves from a gang of teens armed with razors and knives. - A Nation of Cowards, 113 PUBLIC INTEREST (Fall 1993). Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - Our whole slave system depends on your economic assistance. When they bury us alive, please do not send them shovels and the most up-to-date earth moving equipment. Sowell, Thomas

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