Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ People vs. Zerillo  

"Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation’s tyrants and their useful idiots. ... The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States."

~ Walter E. Williams  

"This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline."

~ Winston Churchill  

"Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms;
and this right shall never be questioned."

~ Maine Constitution  

"Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem
(By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty)"

~ Massachusetts State Motto  

"All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of
themselves, their families, their property and the state."

~ New Hampshire Constitution  

"[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms .... And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard."

~ Daniel D. Polsby  

"Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more."

~ John F. McManus  

~ Miller v. U.S.  

"[It is] a natural Right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the [English] Bill of rights, to keep arms for their own defense; and as Mr. Blackstone observes, it is to be made use of when the sanctions of Society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression."

~ Boston Evening Post  

"The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the "high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power."

~ Cockrum v. State  

"Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state."

~ Connecticut Constitution  

"No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass,
unless with written orders from his master or employer,
or in his company, with arms from one place to another."

~ A Bill Concerning Slaves  

"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head.
Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"And they are ignorant
that the purpose of the sword is
to save every man from slavery."

~ Lucanus