"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
--Thomas Jefferson

"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force."
--Thomas Jefferson

"That the 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 in arguing for a Bill of Rights, from the book "Massachusetts," published by Pierce & Hale, Boston, 1850, pg. 86-87.

"Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual discretion...in private self-defense..."
--John Adams, A defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the USA, 471 (1788).

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
--George Washington

"A free people ought...to be armed..."
--George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790.

"...to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them..."
--George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380.

"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...Debates and other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia, ...taken in shorthand by David Robertson of Petersburg, at 271, 275 (2d ed. Richmond, 1805). Also 3 Elliot, Debates at 386.

"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 theey always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
--Rep. Eldgridge Gerry of Massachusetts (spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750 (August 17, 1789.))

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."
--Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security."
--William F. Buckley

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
--Mahatma Ghandi

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What does Klinton think? -
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . ."
--William J. Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993.

Another Gun Control Proponent:

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so"
--Adolph Hitler.

Those poor people in Inida walking around without arms, no wonder they so skinny!

Every Picture I saw of Ghandi though, He had arms.

BWAUGH!!!!

that quote attributed to hitler is false..i know, i loved it when i first heard it...

http://www.jpfo.org/GCA_68.htm

Does anyone think that to be true?

What really amazes me and pisses me off is the total stupidity of the people of this country. The accept a president who gets banged in office, committing adultery, oh wait a minute, he didn't really have sex because he didn't put his thingy in her love box, so I guess that was okay. What kind of message does that send to us. Shit, 75% of the woman still supported him and still do. Oh, he did nothing wrong? Shit, I bet if he was there husband and he stuck his dick in some other chicks mouth and let her blow him and dribble it on her dress for posterity, they would't be so forgiving.

For clinton to say

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . ." --William J. Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993.

and then even the congress to continue to support him, those very remarks are treasonis (sp) And whats more, the American people think this is true. I would say that less than 10% of Americans would be willing to sacrifice their life for the idea of Freedom, for the protection of life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. That is sad that the idea of Freedom, born in the hearts of men and woman that founded this country should be lost upon its heirs.

Are we so eager to give up our freedom? Freedom bought and paid for with blood?

I am freightened for my children and their children.