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2009 December 18
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"How should it happen that the individual should be without rights,
but the combination of individuals should possess unlimited rights?" |
"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark." |
"...and by the way, Mr.Speaker, the Second Amendment is not for killing little ducks and leaving Huey and Dewey and Louie without an aunt and uncle. It's for hunting politicians, like in Grozny, and in the colonies in 1776, or when they take your independence away." |
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2009 December 17
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"The maintenance of the right to bear arms is a most essential one to every free people and should not be whittled down by technical constructions." |
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2009 December 16
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"The tragedy of the police state is that it always regards all opposition as a crime, and there are no degrees." |
"Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship." |
"The right is general. It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent. The militia, as has been explained elsewhere, consists of those persons who, under the law, are liable to the performance of military duty, and are officered and enrolled for service when called upon. ... [I]f the right were limited to those enrolled, the purpose of the guarantee might be defeated altogether by the action or the neglect to act of the government it was meant to hold in check. The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for that purpose." |
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2009 December 15
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"We find it intolerable that one constitutional right
should have to be surrendered in order to assert another." |
"When any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it." |
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2009 December 14
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"Republics are formed only after revolution. The change to the empire is slow and gradual. One of the saddest lessons of history is that whenever these schools of politics have met in the republics of old, the imperial school, with its dazzling influence of wealth and power, has always won." |
"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." |
"[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely." |
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