What do you mean 'wait fifteen days'? This is America!

 --- California citizen attempting to purchace a firearm for 

     self-defense during rioting in Los Angelas, week of 30 April 1992



Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the 

peoples' liberty's teeth.

 --- George Washington





... History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples 

to carry arms have prepared their own fall.

 --- Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1939



The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent 

law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the 

decent people will loose.

 --- James Earl Jones



A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, 

the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

 --- United States Constitution, Second Amendment, 1789





You need only 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 their struggle for independence.

 --- C. A. Beard





 "And we should -- then every community in the country could then

 start doing major weapon sweeps and then destroying the weapons, not

 selling  them." - William J. Clinton, President, sworn defender of the

 U.S.      Constitution                                        







    "I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to

    build on.  We're going to have to take one step at a time,

    and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities --

    going to be very modest.  Of course, it's true that politicians

    will then go home and say, 'This is a great law.  The problem

    is solved.'  And it's also true that such statements will tend

    to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.  So then we'll

    have to strengthen that law, and then again to strength that

    law, and maybe again and again.  Right now, though, we'd be

    satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice.  Our ultimate

    goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is

    going to take time.  My estimate is from seven to ten years.

    The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns

    sold in this country.  The second problem is to get them all

    registered.  And the final problem is to make the possession

    of *all* handguns and *all* handgun ammunition -- except for

    the military, policement, licensed security guards, licensed

    sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal."

             -- Pete Shields, Chairman, HCI

    ["A Reporter At Large: Handguns", _The New Yorker_, July 26, 1976,

    57-58]





 "A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against

every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest

on inference."

                        THOMAS JEFFERSON

                        -source-Oxford American Legal Quotes, pp23







"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical

Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical

amount of individual freedom to Americans ...



And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the

public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon 

sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer

in their communities."  (President Bill Clinton, 3-22-94, 

MTV's "Enough is Enough")





"The great object is that every man be armed.  Everyone who is able

                           may have a gun."

 --- Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of

                           the Constitution



"A strong body makes the mind strong.  As to the species of exercises,

  I advise the gun.  While this gives moderate exercise to the body,

  it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind.  Games

  played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for

 the body and stamp no character on the mind.  Let your gun therefore

    be the constant companion of your walks."  --- Thomas Jefferson



   "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before

   them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which

   must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert

  their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are

  confirmed by the next article [the Second Amendment] in their right

                 to keep and bear their private arms."

--- Trence Coxe in "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the

    Federal Constitution", under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in

            the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, 18 June 1789



      "What, sir, is the use of a militia?  It is to prevent the

  establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty...  Whenever

  Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people,

 they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army

                          upon their ruins."

 --- Rep Elbridge Gerry, Mass., I Annals of Congress at 750, 8/17/1789







"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered

as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong

moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will

generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the

people to resist and triumph over them." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph

Story



"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of

any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of

view, justify revolution --- certainly would if such a right were a vital

one." Abraham Lincoln



I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to

say it.    -- Voltaire





Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws.  On

the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed

beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.  

          -- Frederic Bastiat



"But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the

same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it

is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and provide

new Guards for their future Security." Declaration of Independence



"You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.  That's

contradictory.  If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."

      --Edwin Meese III



      ".... endowed by our  Creator with certain inalienable Rights,

      among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."

                  --Declaration of Independance



      "We, the People of the United States of America, in order

       to form a more perfect Union ... do Ordain and Establish

       this Constitution of the United States of America."

                  -- Preamble to the US COnstitution





 "It's the misfortune of all Countries, that they sometimes lie under

 a unhappy necessity to defend themselves by Arms against the ambition

  of their Governors, and to fight for what's their own.  If those in

  government are headless of reason, the people must patiently submit

to Bondage, or stand upon their own Defence; 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."

                  --- John Trenchard and Walter Moyle



 "I ask, sir, what is the militia?  It is the whole people, except for

                       a few public officials."

            --- George Mason, 3 Elliott, Debates at 425-426



"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people

always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to

                              use them."

       --- Richard Henry Lee writing in letters from the Federal

                  Farmer to the Republic (1787-1788)



 "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."  --- Thomas Jefferson



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    "Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no

    liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the

 second allows us to do something about it!  The second will be taken

 away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms."

                            --- Andrew Ford

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   "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as

   they are in almost every kingdom of Europe.  The supreme power in

  America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole

 body of people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any body

 of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United

                               States."

  --- Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principals of the

                         Federal Constitution



   "Congress have no power to disarm the militia.  Their swords, and

 every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of

 an American...  The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands

 of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God

           it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

        --- Trench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 February 1788



   "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize

   Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights

   of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who

        are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..."

                           --- Samuel Adams



         "No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

   --- Thomas Jefferson, proposal Virginia Constitution, June 1776,

                      1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334



"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people

fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our

servant, not our master!"

                           --- Thomas Jefferson



"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of

currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the 

corporations that will grow up around them WILL DEPRIVE THE PEOPLE OF ALL

PROPERTY until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers

conquered."

            (It is important to remember the Federal Reserve and 

            member banks are all PRIVATE CORPORATIONS and are no

            more federal than Federal Express)



            --- Thomas Jefferson



Patriotism means to stand by the country.  It does not mean to stand by the

president or any public official, save exactly to the degree he himself

stands by the country. (Theodore Roosevelt)



The world can therefore seize the opportunity (Persian Gulf crisis) to

fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are

drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of

mankind. (George Bush)



Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its

powers, but the truth is ... the Federal Reserve System has usurped the

government.  It controls everything here (Congress) and it controls all our

foreign relations.  It makes and breaks governments at will.  (Louis T

McFadden, ex-Chair of the House Committee on Banking & Currency.  Believed

to have been murdered.)



Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order

in the world as well as property.  Horrid mischief would ensue where the law

abiding deprived the use of them. (Thomas Paine)



In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him

down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.  (Thomas Jefferson)



If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and

never will be ... The people cannot be safe without information.  Where the

press is free, and every man is able (and willing) to read, all is safe.

(Thomas Jefferson)



The ideal tyranny iis that which is ignorantly self-administered by its

victims.  The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and

unawaredly enslave themselves.  (Dresden James)



The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency.  (Vladimir Lenin)



The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

(Thomas Jefferson)