Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
Democracy is the most vile form of government.
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.
Resistance to tyranny is service to God.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.
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.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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