[MatthewViti]

wake up!

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." Edmund Burke Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777

"In countries under arbitrary government, the people oppressed and dispirited neither possess arms nor know how to use them. Tyrants never feel secure until they have disarmed the people." - Unknown Author, from the Connecticut Courant, 1788

"The most foolish mistake we could possible make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms ..." - Adolph Hitler, German Dictator

"Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years." - Niccolo Machiavelli, 16th Century Italian Political Theorist

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States

"Those who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right are courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like." - Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School

"One who values his life and takes seriously hi responsibilities to his family and community ... will be armed, will be trained in the use of his weapon, and will defend himself when faced with lethal violence." - Jeffrey R. Snyder, American author, from 'A Nation of Cowards'

"The Constitution should never be construed to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Samuel Adams, Organizer of the 'Boston Tea Party' and signer of the Declaration of Independence

"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purpose without resistance is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms ..." - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

"The great object is that every man be armed ... Everyone who is able may have a gun." - Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary who spurred the creation of the Virginia Militia with his words, 'Give me liberty or give me death.'

"The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people." Fisher Ames in a letter to F.R. Minoe, June 12, 1789, in 1 Works of Fisher Ames at 53-54, (1854)

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." Edmund Burke Speech at County Meeting of Bucks, 1784

[Consort]

Those are significant quotes. My post was not significant, but it's valid.