“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” -John Quincy Adams
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people…They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson
“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
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” - Ronald Reagan
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” - Abraham Lincoln
“We must obey God rather than men!” - Peter the Apostle in Acts 5:29
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” - Ronald Reagan
“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” - Thomas Jefferson
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.” - Ben Franklin
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Ben Franklin
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” - Albert Einstein
“While the State exists there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.” - Lenin (warning)
“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.” - George Washington
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” - George Washington
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” - George Washingtion
Quotes from the Founders During the Ratification Period of the Constitution Regarding the Second Amendment
The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
---James Madison,The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
---Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
---Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
