Great Quotes about freedom, liberty,
the God given RIGHTS of we the humans. . .
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government" 5/9/02 posted --George Washington
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." --Thomas Jefferson (ain't dat da truth. . ..)
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom it's legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and, so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression. . .
--THE TEXAS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, MARCH 2, 1836
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." --Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels (Kinda sounds like our political system since the days of Lincoln)
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And. . . moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention; 1964 (I don't care much for the man, he turned out to be a judas goat for the elite, but this quote is RIGHT ON THE MONEY!!!!)
RIGHT TO HAPPINESS, FREEDOM, PROPERTY
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness. . . We claim them from a higher source-from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence. . . It would be an insult on the divine Majesty to say, that he has given or allowed any man or body of men a right to make me miserable. If no man or body of men has such a right, I have a right to be happy. If there can be no happiness without freedom, I have a right to be free. If I cannot enjoy freedom without security of property, I have a right to be thus secured. (Emphasis per original.)
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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." --William Pitt, 18 Nov 1783
"Beware of the leader who bangs of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
"And when the drums of war have reached a fevor pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.
"How do I know? I know for this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." --Julius Caesar.
(Sounds very much like today's propagandist war on terrorism and the hunt for CIA-made Bin Boogey Man. . . Wake up America the Blue Bloods and their Prostiticians are STEALING AWAY your GOD given RIGHTS. . . Speak Now or forever lose your UnAlienable Rights Forever. . .)
"No law ever written has ever stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim. The answer is simple. We will keep and bare arms, like our forefathers did, and we will defend ourselves." --Quotations of W. Emerson Wright
This just in Freedom loving folks. . .
"The plain meaning of the right of the people to keep arms is that it is an individual, rather than a collective, right and is not limited to keeping arms while engaged in active military service or as a member of a select militia such as the National Guard." --U.S. v Emerson, 5th Circuit Federal Courtpublished October 16, 2001
"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 ruined. --Patrick Henry, on ratification of the Constitution, 1788
LIBERTY
"It is far better to focus our efforts on immigration reform and ridding our country of suspected terrorists than to restrict the constitutional liberties of our own citizens. The fight against terrorism should be fought largely at our borders. Once potential terrorists are in the country, the task of finding and arresting them becomes much harder, and the calls for intrusive government monitoring of all of us become louder. If we do not want to move in the direction of a police state at home, we must prevent terrorists from entering the country in the first place. Finally, meaningful immigration reform can only take place when we end the welfare state. No one has a right to immigrate to America and receive benefits paid for by taxpayers. When we eliminate welfare incentives, we insure that only those who truly seek America's freedoms and opportunities will want to come here." --Rep. Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) (Americas ONLY consistent freedom loving Congress person)
"We are on the verge of a Global Transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nation will accept the New World Order!" --Billionaire and New World Order globalist David Rockefeller (maybe we should investigate this PUKE for he and his plutocratic homeys gained EVERYTHING from this debacle and tragedy)
In times of so-called WAR. . . TRUTH is the first casualty. . .pf
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." --(Arthur Schopenhauer)
PATRIOTS are not "Revolutionaries" trying to overthrow the government of the United States. PATRIOTS are "Counter-Revolutionaries" trying to prevent the government of the United States from overthrowing the Constitution of the United States. - Unknown Author
"He that would give up a little bit of liberty for a little bit of personal safety, deserves neither liberty nor safety" --Benjamin Franklin
"Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of Hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature placed in our power. Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." --Patrick Henry
Columnist Blasts UN's Silence after Attack (CNSNews.com) - "The U.N. building towers over the East River like a giant middle finger aimed at our shores," writes the New York Post's Andrea Peyser
in what a diplomat might call a "frank and forthright" column in Friday's
newspaper. "It's time for the United Nations to get the hell out of town," she
writes, venting her fury at an organization that "functions as an international
megaphone through which every Third World dictatorship vents its fury at our way
of life."
"I have no doubt even as I write this, that longstanding bureaucratic wish lists are being transformed into 'essential' anti-terrorist precautions. This sort of overreaction is exactly what terrorists want. To the extent that we give away our freedom in the vain hope that its sacrifice will purchase us a little security, we are playing into their hands." -- Glenn H. Reynolds, Fox News, Sept. 12, 2001
AN ATTEMPT TO SILENCE A MAN IS TO PAY HIM HOMAGE, FOR IT IS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT HIS ARGUMENTS ARE BOTH IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER AND IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE. --Ed Steele Constitutional Lawyer for 'We The People'
"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
(Outstanding. . ..)
"And now, Almighty Father, if it is Thy holy will that we shall obtain a place and name among the nations of the earth, grant that we may be enabled to show our gratitude for Thy goodness by our endeavors to fear and obey Thee. Bless us with thy wisdom in our counsels, success in battle, and let our victories be tempered with humanity. Endow, also, our enemies with enlightened minds, that they become sensible of their injustice, and willing to restore our liberty and peace. Grant the petition of Thy servant, for the sake of whom Thou hast called Thy beloved Son; nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done." --George Washington (As always Georgie had a great relationship with FATHER!)
"Oh, my countrymen! What will our children say, when they read the history of these times? Should they find we tamely gave away without one noble struggle, the most invaluable of earthly blessings? As they drag the galling chain, will they not execrate us? If we have any respect for things sacred; any regard to the dearest treasures on earth; if we have one tender sentiment for posterity; if we would not be despised by the whole world - let us in the most open, solemn manner, and with determined fortitude, swear we will die, if we cannot live free men!" Josiah Quincy, Jr., 1788published in the Boston Gazette
OK. . . Madison pretty much wrote the Constitution. These are his comments regarding the general welfare section. Any questions?
"With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers (enumerated in the Constitution) connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." --James Madison
The above puts the Kabosh on those liberal freaks that say the Constitution is a living breathing document subject to change with the whims of the day. . .The Constitution addresses the basic urges of MEN who try to rule over others by dividing up the power into 4 branches. . . yes 4, you might be forgetting the power of the JURY to nullify the bad laws that men in congress, our prez, and Judiciary might think up that just don't work out in REAL life. pf
Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education pushers at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety - not usage. Why, then, doesn't the same logic apply to guns?" -- Columnist Michelle Malkin (Because the Gun Nazis don't use Logic, and are not CONSISTENT in their actions. Remember some are more EQUAL than others)
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." --Benjamin Franklin (a shorty but a goody)
A wise decision, that gives you something to think about fifty years later... In 1960, Robert Menard was a Commander aboard the USS Constellation when he was part of a meeting between United States Navy personnel and their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Forces. Fifteen years had passed since VJ day, most of those at the meeting were WWII veterans, and men who had fought each other to the death at sea were now comrades in battle who could confide in one another.
Someone at the table asked a Japanese admiral why, with the Pacific Fleet devastated at Pearl Harbor and the mainland US forces in what Japan had to know was a pathetic state of unreadiness, Japan had not simply invaded the West Coast.
Commander Menard would never forget the crafty look on the Japanese commander's face as he frankly answered the question.
"You are right", he told the Americans. "We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand." (This is a good example as to why our Second Amendment - God given Rights are so IMPORTANT and why the Elite Scumbags and their Prostiticians are trying the full court press to demolish it, because WE cannot EVER be slaves as long as we are ARMED TO THE TEETH. . . God Bless America. . .)
For the UN protest Rally Saturday July 14th. . .
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity. . . will respect the less important and arbitrary ones . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." --T. Jefferson
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless."
From John Adams. . . To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
". . .citizens have access to the courts the way Christians had access to the lions. . ." This quote is from an excellent article about Lysander Spooner and his battle with the Post Office. Worth reading.
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"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 (One of thee greatest Forefather)
. . .WOW! Check this doozy one out by A. Solzhenitsyn And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether the would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. . .The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!. . . Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago and more recent congress critters progun quotes. . .
Rep. John W. Patman: "The people have a right to keep arms; therefore, if we should have some Executive who attempted to set himself up as a dictator or king, the people can organize themselves together and, with the arms and ammunition they have, they can properly protect themselves."
Rep. Edwin A. Hall: "Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took power from the German and Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachment of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the OGPU, and the Cheka." predecessor of KGB)
Further, should war break out, Congress enacted legislation to authorize the President to requisition broad categories of property with military uses from the private sector on payment of fair compensation. The legislation stated; "Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed:
(1) to authorize the requisitioning or require the registration of any firearms possessed by any individual for his personal protection or sport [or]
(2) to impair or infringe in any manner the right of any individual to keep and bear arms. . ."
"If sending tanks, dozens of heavily armed men, forcing lethal gases into their space and burning over 80 human beings into ashes.
. . many of them children -- over an alleged tax violation isn't tyranny, then what is?" ~~ Remember Waco's Anniversary 4/19/01
. . .we are ruled by mercenaries, men without a country. National sovereignty is nothing to them, nor is patriotism. . . these are not the actions of patriots. --Lew Rockwell
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." --Thomas Paine (how true. . .)
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe that there would be a revolution before morning." --Henry Ford (Sad but soooo true. It will take for the beer and the sports to stop flowing and showing for the masses to rise up against this Supreme Injustice. . . . .)
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. --Patrick Henry
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." --Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857