""All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
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— Edmund Burke

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"Where they have burned books,
they will end in burning human beings."
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— Heinrich Heine

"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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— Martin Niemöller

""I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.""
— Groucho Marx

""Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
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— Groucho Marx

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."
— Alexis de Tocqueville

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
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— George Washington

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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— George Washington

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

""I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man." "
— Thomas Jefferson

""Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
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— Thomas Jefferson

"Security without liberty is called prison.
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— Benjamin Franklin

""Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security."

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— Norman Vincent Peale

""You cannot invade the mainland United
States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."


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— Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

"“An armed society is a polite society.”

Robert Heinlein
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— Robert Heinlein

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.
-Benjamin Franklin "
— Benjamin Franklin

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing
will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.



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— Patrick Henry

"“The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I’m not going to make very many friends saying this, but it’s about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.”


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— Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp appearing before Representative Charles Schumer’s committee hearings on th

"“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”



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— Samuel Adams

"“Though defensive violence will always be a ’sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.”



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— St. Augustine

"Dangerous laws created by well intentioned people today can be used by dangerous people with evil intentions tomorrow.”


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— Alan Eppers

"“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

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— Plato

""He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

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— Thomas Paine

""War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than his own personal safety is a miserable creature."



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— John Stuart Mill

""One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms."
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— Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story 1840

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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— Thomas Jefferson

"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
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— Thomas Jefferson

""These Sarah Brady types must be educated to understand that because we have an armed citizenry, that a dictatorship has not happened in America. These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to Liberty than street criminals or foreign spies."
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— Theodore Haas Dachau Survivor

""The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
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— James Earl Jones

"Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.



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— Andrew Fletcher 1698