"No free man shall be debarred the use af arms."
                               -Thomas Jefferson

"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and
include all men capable of bearing arms...  To preserve liberty it is
essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be
taught alike... how to use them."
                               -Richard Henry Lee

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the
United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
                               -Samual Adams

"I ask, sir, what is the militia?  It is the whole people...  To disarm
the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them...
                               -George Mason

"[The Constitution Preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans
possess over the people of almost every other nation... [where] the
governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
                               -James Madison

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion,
 in private self-defense."
                               -John Adams

"Those who are willing to trade liberty for safety deserve neither."
                               -Ben Franklin

"The demand for gun control is an attempt on the part of politically
appointed, politically motivated and politically dependent law-
enforcement authorities who have demonstrated their incompetence in
enforcing the criminal law to place the blame for their professional
failure on the backs of the law-abiding gun owners."
	                  -John Michael Snyder, Public Affairs Director of CCRKBA

"1935 will go down in history.  For the first time, a civilized nation has
full gun registration.  Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient,
and the world will follow our lead into the future."
                               -Adolf Hitler

"Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the
effect of such [gun] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of
the state, unable to resist."
       - Robert Heinlein, in a 1949 letter concerning "Red Planet"

"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with
no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy.  However, 4 out of 5 US murders are
committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?"
                               -Andrew Ford

"The right of the citizen to keep and bear arms has justly been considered
as the palladium [guardian] of the liberties of a republic; since it offers
a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers." 
                               -Supreme Court Justice Story 1833

"(T)he people cannot be effectually be oppressed and enslaved, who is not
first disarmed." 
                               -Texas Supreme Court 1859 decision

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the
consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."
                               -John Philpot Curran, 10 July 1790

"God made man; Samuel Colt made him equal."
                               -Anonymous
