God bless America and all its rules and regulations!
"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God!" - Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said many wonderful things.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
The opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds
That truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate ; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
A free people [claim] their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art. To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. They know, and will therefore say, that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.