berettaprofessor
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I've been collecting for awhile. 
I do not vouch for their veracity, only for their applicability. Some are from wise members of this blog. A sample:
My favorite:
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur? What if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" --Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago, the story of the 60 million Russians who suffered, and the 20 million who died in Soviet slave labor camps.
Others:
"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you." Killermonkey21 on THR, 1/29/09.
"If I had to choose between freedom of speech and my gun, I'd choose my gun. Then I'd say whatever I want because I have a gun. Author Unknown to me."
A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed.
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law." Henry David Thoreau
It's not the Bill of Needs. It's the Bill of Rights.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -William Pitt, 1783
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." H. L. Mencken
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." H. L. Mencken
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.
"Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy." -John Derbyshire
"The Second Amendment isn't about hunting deer, it's about hunting politicians." Congressman "B1" Bob Dornan
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees*. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once" Judge Alex Kozinski, 9th Circuit Court, dissenting of rehearing Silveira V. Lockver, 5/06/2003.
"If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain, if, after a while, the law follows his example." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Who, indeed, are the paranoid ones --those who fear the armed law abiding, or those who fear the armed law breakers?"
--Len S, THR
"I've always found it ironic that I, as a target shooter, cannot own a gun that is intended for any reason other than killing animals."
“How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." -- George Orwell
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." William Adama, Battlestar Galactica 2004
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson, 11/13/1787
"Rights are never bestowed by government. They are asserted by the People, and then the question becomes whether or not there will be a fight over the topic." Bowline on THR
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." Thomas Paine
I'm going to duck low and take cover now....
I do not vouch for their veracity, only for their applicability. Some are from wise members of this blog. A sample:My favorite:
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur? What if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" --Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago, the story of the 60 million Russians who suffered, and the 20 million who died in Soviet slave labor camps.
Others:
"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you." Killermonkey21 on THR, 1/29/09.
"If I had to choose between freedom of speech and my gun, I'd choose my gun. Then I'd say whatever I want because I have a gun. Author Unknown to me."
A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed.
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law." Henry David Thoreau
It's not the Bill of Needs. It's the Bill of Rights.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -William Pitt, 1783
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." H. L. Mencken
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." H. L. Mencken
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.
"Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy." -John Derbyshire
"The Second Amendment isn't about hunting deer, it's about hunting politicians." Congressman "B1" Bob Dornan
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees*. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once" Judge Alex Kozinski, 9th Circuit Court, dissenting of rehearing Silveira V. Lockver, 5/06/2003.
"If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain, if, after a while, the law follows his example." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Who, indeed, are the paranoid ones --those who fear the armed law abiding, or those who fear the armed law breakers?"
--Len S, THR
"I've always found it ironic that I, as a target shooter, cannot own a gun that is intended for any reason other than killing animals."
“How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." -- George Orwell
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." William Adama, Battlestar Galactica 2004
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson, 11/13/1787
"Rights are never bestowed by government. They are asserted by the People, and then the question becomes whether or not there will be a fight over the topic." Bowline on THR
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." Thomas Paine
I'm going to duck low and take cover now....
