“I much prefer ‘Dangerous’ Freedom to ‘Peaceful’ Slavery”.
“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.”
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
“You’ve been given a Republic, if you can keep it”
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of
”liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day
America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened”.
- Norman Thomas (U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate from 1928 to 1948)
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-
armed lamb contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin, 1759
My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
“He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation” -James A. Garfield
“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough
to take it all away.”
“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the
United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
“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
prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed one.”
“I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the
people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
- Thomas Jefferson (Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers,
334 C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have
sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any
who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone
who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it
but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…The
great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might
have a gun.”