John Adams

 "Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense...." -John Adams

 "I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, two a law firm, and three or more become a congress." -John Adams

 "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." - John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798, Address to the military

 "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom... go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels nor arms. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -John Adams, 1776

 "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have...a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers." - John Adams

 "Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue." - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

 "Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty." -John Adams advise to his wife, in concern for his sons

Abigail Adams

  "A patriot without religion, in my estimation, is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? ...The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation." - Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams

John Qincy Adams

 "Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and prayers, but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator of her own." - John Quincy Adams, 1821

 "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." - John Quincy Adams

Samuel Adams

 "A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security." - Samuel Adams

 "The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms." -Samuel Adams, debates at; Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87.

Dr. Tom Berger

Sir William Blackstone

 "Self-defense is justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society." -Sir William Blackstone, 1765

 "Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture." -Sir William Blackstone

Sir Winston Churchill

 "Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away." -Sir Winston Churchill

 "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -Sir Winston Churchill

 "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." -Winston Spencer Churchill, Address at Harrow School, October 29, 1941

 "Men occasionally stumble over the truth,but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened" -Winston Churchill

 "In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times." -Winston Churchill

 "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill

 "I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." -Winston Churchill

 "Never turn your back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it .If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" -Winston Churchill

Cicero

 "He that violates his oath profanes the Divinity of faith itself." -Marcus Tullius Cicero

 "The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." -Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

 "Power and law are not synonymous. In truth they are frequently in opposition and irreconcilable. There is God's Law from which all Equitable laws of man emerge and by which men must live if they are not to die in oppression, chaos and despair. Divorced from God's eternal and immutable Law, established before the founding of the suns, man's power is evil no matter the noble words with which it is employed or the motives urged when enforcing it. Men of good will, mindful therefore of the Law laid down by God, will oppose governments whose rule is by men, and if they wish to survive as a nation they will destroy the government which attempts to adjudicate by the whim of venal judges." -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Jeff Cooper

 "Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government." -Jeff Cooper

 "In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in." -Jeff Cooper; from "Pistols and the Law" in "Cooper on Handguns"

Andrew Fletcher

 "The possession of arms is the distinction between a free man and a slave." -Andrew Fletcher 1695, Discourse on Government

Benjamin Franklin

 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1776

 "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Benjamin Franklin

 "A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit - are the principle support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty." - Benjamin Franklin; March 1778

 "The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: 'that God governs in the affairs of men.' And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?" - Benjamin Franklin

Mohandas Gandhi

 "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise viloence." -Mohandas Gandhi

Josef Goebbels

 "...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious." -Josef Goebbels - Nazi Propaganda Minister

 "The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." -Josef Goebbels - Nazi Propaganda Minister

Adolf Hitler

 "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." -Adolf Hitler, 1935.

Alexander Hamilton

 "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -Alexander Hamilton

 "...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion." -Alexander Hamilton

 "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." - Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist; Feb.8, 1788

Patrick Henry

 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are inevitably ruined." -Patrick Henry

 "They tell us...that we are weak-unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? ...Will it be when we are totally disarmed...Three million people, armed in the holy cause of liberty are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us," -Patrick Henry

 "You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government." - Patrick Henry

 "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry

 "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." - Patrick Henry

 "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! - I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 "The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

 "Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force." -Oliver Wendell Holmes