"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~ George Mason
"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ~ Samuel Adams
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." ~ Thomas Jefferson
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence