A State of Treason Quotes

“I am embarrassed for America. I am sad but ticked off that Americans have let their country deteriorate to the point that the federal government can perpetrate these types of crimes and that people are more concerned over the score of Monday Night Football than the tyranny that exists,”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“There is something glorious about this place we call Texas. Hell, I don’t know, it must be in the water. Somehow, as overwhelming odds and pressures congregate over Texas like a spring storm, average men and women are transformed into icons of history.”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Texans never forget. That’s either our curse or one of our best attributes, I’m not really sure which,” replied the governor.”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“the average American doesn’t know he’s wrong. America’s lack of constitutional knowledge works against us”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“If every person has the right to defend―even by force― his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly.” ~ Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
French Politician & Economist
Forefather of Libertarian Ideals
& Austrian Economics Theory of Thought”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Pity the poor, wretched, timid soul, too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the songs of the damned, ‘I cannot resist, I have too much to lose, they might take my property or confiscate my earnings, what would my family do, how would they survive?’ He hides behind pretended family responsibility, failing to see that the most glorious legacy that we can bequeath to our posterity is liberty!” ~ W. Vaughn Ellsworth
American Author
IRS Protestor”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only a unanimity at the graveyard.” ~ Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1945)
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.” ~ L. Neil Smith”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.” ~ Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to society, to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force—and statism has always been the political corollary of collectivism.” ~ Ayn Rand (1905-1982)”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“He couldn’t help thinking about one of Sam Houston’s most famous quotes, and he took some comfort in the belief that Texans at the core are defiant and resolute. He recalled Houston’s famous words: “Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason