Outstanding thread! I've got a Word doc that I've been cutting and pasting quotes into and out of since I've been a member of the OG AR15.com board.
“. . . a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.”
--Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App.181)
“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the *real* object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”
--Patrick Henry, speech of June 9,1788
“To Hell with the Constitution.”
-- Mike Roos, California Assemblyman, On the constitutionality of the Roberti-Roos assault weapons ban of 1989 (The fact that he wasn't dragged from the Assembly Hall into the street and hanged from the nearest lamppost confirms the wisdom of my decision to move from his state to Texas)
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun."
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 (gotta love TR, one of this nation's finest presidents)
"One hundred rounds do not constitute firepower. One hit constitutes firepower."
--General Merritt “Red Mike” Edson, USMC (Gen Edson commanded the Marine Raiders in WWII)
"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes, and the other is the Bill of Rights."
--Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC (MGen Butler was awarded two Medals of Honor in his career, one of only two Marines to do that)
"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!"
--Captian John Parker, Lexington Militia, at Lexington Green, April 19, 1775 (Some folks forget that "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" was fired at Lexington Green, when the British came to confiscate the Colonial Militia's armory)
“Happiness is interlocking fields of fire.”
--Jarhead_22 (My meager contribution)
“The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the “high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.”
--Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859)
"The United States should get rid of its militias."
--Josef Stalin, 1933 (Stalin killed ~20,000,000 of his own citizens)
Sorry for running on and on, but I really dig this thread.
Semper Fi
Jarhead out.