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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An… — Edward Abbey
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against… — Walter E. Williams
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny,… — James Madison
One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all… — George Washington
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to… — Elbridge Gerry
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not… — Martin Niemoller
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over… — Herbert Hoover
Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation. — Unknown Author
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful… — Cato the Younger
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once… — Otto Hermann Kahn
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as… — Henry James Sumner Maine
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. — Chuck Baldwin
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway… — Bob Schaffer
Zionism is a subject that all but a few are either too ignorant or too frightened to tackle and expose, but it must be made… — David Icke
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I… — Bob Hope
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker… — Henry Ward Beecher
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny — Robert A. Heinlein
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child… — Abraham Lincoln
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it.… — Benjamin Tucker
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of… — John Fowles
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. — Nicholas Eberstadt
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must… — Winston Churchill
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is… — Alexander Hamilton
All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the… — Hugh Reginald Haweis

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