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  • The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

    Religious   Men   Issues  
  • Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Men   Gun   Law  
  • I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

  • In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

    Power   Men   Liberty  
    The Federalist no. 51 (1788)
  • When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.216
  • The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.

    James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.183, Macmillan
  • It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

    Freedom   Real   War  
    James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press
  • Man is not free unless government is limited.

    Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.
  • The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  • The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

    Country   Weed   War  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.6, Broadway Books
  • Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

    "Political Observations" by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. April 20, 1795.
  • Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

  • Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.228, Penguin
  • The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

    Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.296
  • He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

    Pain   Freedom   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow
  • If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

    Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.
  • Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press
  • Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

    James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin
  • Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

    "H. G. Wells : 'It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin'". Interview with H. G. Wells, www.newstatesman.com. October 27, 1934.
  • The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

    Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings”, p.30
  • No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

    Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”
  • If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.

    James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.31, University of Virginia Press
  • You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

  • Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

    "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

    "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.
  • The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

    James Madison's notes on the debates in the Federal Convention, avalon.law.yale.edu. July 11, 1787.
  • A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks
  • Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

    Country   Army   Gun  
    Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43
  • I have sworn upon the altar of god.

    Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800
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