"Veritas Vos Liberabit"
Famous Quotes from Famous Americans (and others...)
Read them and UNDERSTAND them, and you'll feel a feeling that only a FREE American can understand!
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Note; I cannot vouch for the authenticity of any of the following quotes as they have all been gleaned from different locations all over the Internet. The reason I list them here is because of their messages, their importance, and their ability to fit in with current events around us. If any are, perhaps, not true legitimate quotations, so WHAT??? Then they should have been!! Read, learn, and enjoy!
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"Congressmen (and Senators?) who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged!"
President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith from spiritual faith to great courage from courage to liberty from liberty to abundance from abundance to selfishness from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy from apathy to dependency from dependency back to bondage."
Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)
"All of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government!"
Ronald Reagan
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"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself! They are the American people's Liberty Teeth and keystone under Independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurances, and tendencies PROVE that to insure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indespensable. The very atmosphere of firearms EVERYWHERE restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of HONOR with all that's good!"
President Geo. Washington, in a speech to Congress. 7 January, 1790
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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 has proven to be always possible."
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
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"Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, the Communist Party must control the guns."
Mao Tse Tung
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"(W)hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was Governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should do it not openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually."..........I ask, who are the Militia? They consist now of the WHOLE people, except a few public officers."
George Mason, Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
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"Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty."
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"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
Vladimir I. Lenin, first leader of the Soviet Union
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"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
Sigmund Freud
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"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."
Karl Marx
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"Only a coward supports gun control, you know how to stop car jacking? Shoot the carjacker. If someone is going to kill me for my Buick, I'm gonna shoot until I'm out of ammo, and then I'll call 911."
Ted Nugent, People Magazine, 1994
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"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, 1941
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"........he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
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"When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace."
Jesus Christ, Luke 22:36 and Luke 11:21, respectively.
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"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed unless they try to take it."
Thomas Jefferson
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"Gun Bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans ATTRACT them."
Walter Mondale
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"They that can give up ESSENTIAL Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve NEITHER liberty nor safety"
Benjamin Franklin
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"Americans (have) the right and advantage of being armed, unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
James Madison
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"The strongest reason for the PEOPLE to RETAIN the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against TYRANNY in Government!"
Thos. Jefferson
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"No FREE man shall EVER be barred the use of arms"
Thos. Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, T. Jefferson Papers, 334
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"The GREAT object is that EVERY man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun!"
Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot, Debates at 386
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"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there is service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."
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"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws..........Create a nation of lawbreakers, and then you can cash in on the guilt."
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"We are fast aproaching the stage in the ultimate inversion; the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only permission; which is the stage of the darkest period of human history; the stage of rule by brute force."
Ayn Rand, author
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"The people are NOT to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them!"
Zachariah Johnson, 3 Elliot, Debates at 646
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"A Militia, when PROPERLY formed, are in fact the PEOPLE themselves, and include ALL men capable of bearing arms."
Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788) at 169
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"What, Sir, is the USE of a Militia? It is to PREVENT the establishment of a standing army, the BANE of Liberty!"
Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, 1 Annals of Congress at 750 (17 Aug., 1789)
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"Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion......in private self defense......"
John Adams; A Defense of the Constitution of the Government of the U.S.A. 471 (1788)
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".......the PEOPLE have a RIGHT to keep and bear arms."
Patrick Henry, Elliot, Debates at 185
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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of it's arms as the blackest."
Mahatma Ghandi, 1927
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"Here is the real problem, the MAIN problem in America; As long as American's stomachs are FULL and their TV sets work, they just don't care!"
(Note: this can now be updated to "as long as there Blackberries and I-Pods work and their latte's's hot............)
Tom Sargis Jr. (me), to my brother Dave, 1984
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"If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
Clint Smith, director, Thunder Ranch
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"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future."
Adolph Hitler, 1935
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"An 'appeaser' is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Winston Churchill
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A few more FACTS about why gun control is good for everyone. And the United Nations wants this for us all!! NEVER!!!
Turkey established gun control in 1911. From 1915 through 1917, 1.5 MILLION Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
The Soviet Union established gun control in 1929. From 1929 through 1953, 20 MILLION political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938. From 1939 through 1945, 13 MILLION Jews, Gypsies, HOMOSEXUALS, the mentally ill, and other "mongrolized" people, were rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1949 through ???, 20 MILLION political dissidents and others, unable to defend themselves, have been rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 through 1977, 1 MILLION "educated people", unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 through 1981, 100,000 native Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 through 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
The United States started establishing gun control in 1934...........NAW!..........I won't even! But you THINK about it a little, OK??
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, Spanish Philosopher (1863-1952)
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"Germans who wish to use guns should join the S.S., or the S.A. (Army), ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state."
Heinrich Himmler
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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 people to carry arms have prepared their own fall."
Adolph Hitler, edict of 18 March, 1938
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright FORCE. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined."
Patrick Henry
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"The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were ALL the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. Horrible mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them.............the weak will become prey to the strong."
Thomas Paine
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Now, remember, we have built statues and memorials to honor our "Founding Fathers". We have named streets and cities after them. Why do we no longer respect what they THOUGHT, and BELIEVED in? Those things are what this country is SUPPOSED to be based on!! These are the reasons for our Constitution............I was told once by an intelligent man that if a person wanted to sound like some kind of crazy, radical, terrorist, maniac subversive, all that person had to do was start quoting the FOUNDING FATHERS of our great country!
Now I ask you; what's wrong with that picture my friends?!?!
Think about it, apathy and ignorance are becoming (have become) very dangerous things!