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"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson
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"That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people
trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state; that
standing armies in time of peace should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and
that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and
governed by, the civil power."
- - George Mason.
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"If the laws of the Union were oppressive, they could not carry them into
effect, if the people were possessed of the proper means of defense."
- - William Lenoir
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"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."
- - Thomas Jefferson.
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"Whenever people . . . entrust the defense of their country to a regular,
standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain
under the direction of the most wealthy citizens..."
- - A Framer
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"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against
arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears
remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always
possible."
- - Senator Hubert H. Humprey
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army
pistols or guns, the evil must b e prevented by the penitentiary and gallows,
and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege."
- - Wilson V. State
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"...to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave
them..."
- - George Mason.
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"The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword;
because the whole of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to
any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United
States."
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be
properly armed."
- - Alexander Hamilton.
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"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the
citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people
with arms."
- - James Madison.
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"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them,
may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed in their right to keep and
bear arms."
- - Tench Coxe
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"The possession of arms makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues,
and tends to permit uprising. Therefore, the heads of provinces, official agents
and deputies are ordered to collect all the weapons mentioned above and turn
them over to the government."
- - Toyotomi Hideyoshit.
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"Those who have command of the arms in a country are masters of the
state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,]
there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to
be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by
the fear of an armed people."
- - Aristotle
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"To avoid domestic tyranny, the people must be armed to stand upon
[their] own Defense; which if [they] are enabled to do, [they] shall never be
put upon it, but [their] Swords may grow rusty in [their] hands; for that Nation
is surest to live in Peace, that is most capable of making War; and a Man that
hath a Sword by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it."
"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most
governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the
narrowest possible limits...and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear
arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not
already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
- - Sir George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court.
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"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The
possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He who has
nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him whose
property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and
has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he
possesses; also he lives precariously, and at discretion."
- - James Burgh
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"...it is liberty rather than peace, which breeds genuine prosperity in a
nation."
- - J.J. Rossueau
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of
the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent
and sudden usurptions."
- - James Madison
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"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking
care of them."
- - Thomas Jefferson
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"How does it become a man to act towards the American government today? I
answer that he cannot, without disgrace, be associated with it."
- - Henry David Thoreau
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"God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to
guard and defend it."
- - Daniel Webster
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"The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the
state."
"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by
him."
"In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private
aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular
private aim over against other private aims."
"The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is
a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the
lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the
general, and so all are mutually deceived."
- - Karl Marx
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"I believe the American would prefer the policeman's truncheon to the
anarchist's bomb."
- - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
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"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the
subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerors who have
allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own
fall."
- - Adolph Hitler. [This means that people with free arm right will not tolerate
slavery.]
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
-Mao Zedong. [We can conclude from this that this powers should remain with the
people.]
"Necessity is the plea of every infringment of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
- - William Pitt
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"Peace without justice is tyranny."
- - old Chinese proverb
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"Life liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws."
- - Frederic Bastiat
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"No one escapes when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and
those who cried, "Appease, appease!" are hanged by those they tried to
please."
"See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives
it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one
citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do
without committing a crime."
- - Frederic Bastiat
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"It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest."
- - Abraham Lincoln
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"Few sometimes know when thousands err."
- - John Milton.
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