the SECOND AMENDMENT
1. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
-Thomas Jefferson
2. God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
-Daniel Webster (1834)
3. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
-Thomas Jefferson (1801)
4. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
-Mao Zedong
5. The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.
-George Sutherland (1938)
6. It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
-Charles A. Beard
7. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
-Edward R. Murrow
8. Can our form of government, our system of justice, survive if one can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it?
-Harlon Carter
9. American 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
10. The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
-Samuel Adams
11. First they came for the
communists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-- because I was
not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-- because I
was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a
Jew;
Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Pastor Niemoller
12. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
-Charles Pe¢ guy