"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal……" — Thomas Jefferson

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• Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. — David Brin
• The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
• You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is… — Sharron Angle
• The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded,… — William E. Simon
• [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the… — H. L. Mencken
• Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the… — Adolf Hitler
• Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded… — Edward Abbey
• The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And… — Joseph Sobran
• Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source… — Ezra Taft Benson
• One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed… — Jeff Cooper
• The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus… — Jeff Cooper
• Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. — Ronald Reagan

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