"[W]hereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it." --Federal Farmer, Antifederalist Letter, No.18
"This health care debacle is not about 'We, The People.' It's about the political class. They have sought this moment ever since FDR. They have sought total control over this population, over individuals. They have made a mockery of the notion that they care what you think." - Rush Limbaugh
"The president and these senators that are up for reelection in 2010 and 2012 have front-loaded the bill with taxes and back-loaded the benefits (and I don't even like the word 'benefits;' there's no benefit to any of this). When people get taxes without health care coverage, they may rebel." - Rush Limbaugh
"We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles. The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Cartwright, 1824
"The magic that was Barack Obama is gone. The world will soon realize that they have been hoaxed on who he is, just as they have hoaxed us on the whole notion of climate change." - Rush Limbaugh
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, 1796
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States." -- Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 1787
"We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty." ~ Ben Franklin
"Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness." -- James Madison, Federalist No. 14
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