"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." – Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp (Texas)
“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.” – Bertrand de Jouvenel
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.” – Alexander Hamilton
“Weapons compound man’s power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters – and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.” – Col. Jeff Cooper
"No man in the wrong can stand up against a man in the right who keeps on a-comin." – William "Wild Bill" MacDonald, Captain, Texas Rangers
"Amateurs talk about tactics. Professionals talk about logistics." – Christopher Bellamy
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
"Rags make paper, and paper makes money, Money makes banks, and banks make loans, Loans makes debts, and debts make beggars, and beggars wear rags…" – Paraphrase of an old Dutch proverb, as quoted by a paper-making company in Holland
“The difference between dreams and reality, is inactivity.” – J. Leonard
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." – Patrick Henry, 1778, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention Reference: The Debates of the Several States, Elliot, vol. 3 (45)
“Congress has no power to appropriate money as an act of charity. As individuals, Americans have the right to give away as much money as they please, but Congress has no right to take our money from us and give it away, however worthy the recipient.” – Tennessee Congressman David "Davy" Crockett, from The Life of Colonel David Crockett, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884)
“I sincerely believe . . . that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas Jefferson
"He who would do some great things in this short life must apply himself to work with such a concentration of force as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." – Francis Parkman, author of "The Oregon Trail"
"Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died." – John Dretschmer
"Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment." – Mark Twain