The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has
been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits.
...and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext
whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
-- St. George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court (1803)

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the
subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.
-- Woodrow Wilson

It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error;
it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
-- Justice Robert H. Jackson

We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts --
not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
-- Abraham Lincoln

The makers of our Constitution sought to protect Americans...
They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone
-- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
-- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

The more laws, the less justice.
-- Marcus Cicero (44 B.C.)

Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed
when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
-- Sara Brady

The press of this country is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated
by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the
great mass of the people that correct information concerning political, economical,
and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order
that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves
from the brutal force and the chicanery of the ruling and employing class.
-- E. W. Scripps

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
-- Joseph Stalin

You [should] not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered,
but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered.
-- Lyndon Johnson, former President of the U.S.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!
And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
-- Barry Goldwater (1964)

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA -
ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.
-- Heinrich Himmler