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"I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ... I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."
-- John C. Danforth
(1936- ) US Senator (MO-R)
Source: in an interview in The Arizona Republic on April 22, 1992
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Danforth.Quote.B25E
"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
Source: Burdeau v. McDowell, 1921
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Louis.Brandeis.Quote.8F2C
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."
-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mark.Twain.Quote.76F1
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The note I sent to Dan Branch and Royce West.
http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2007/09/16/democrats-then-now/ |
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"I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ... I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."
-- John C. Danforth
(1936- ) US Senator (MO-R)
Source: in an interview in The Arizona Republic on April 22, 1992
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Danforth.Quote.B25E
"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
Source: Burdeau v. McDowell, 1921
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Louis.Brandeis.Quote.8F2C
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."
-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mark.Twain.Quote.76F1
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The note I sent to Dan Branch and Royce West.
Texans should have non-partisan redistricting. Please support redistricting completed using computer models. NO MORE GERRYMANDERED DISTRICTS !!
Dan Branch's false delegates were not as persuasive as he had planned. Disappointing that Dan Branch and Dallas County Republicans will stoop to such tactics to keep a career politician in control of the taxpayer's coffers.
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"[F]or everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth."
-- Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
Source: Vices are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lysander.Spooner.Quote.209F
"I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest. Of course, it's true that politicians will then go home and say, 'This is a great law. The problem is solved.' And it's also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time. So then we'll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time. My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal."
-- Nelson Shields
Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc.
Source: A Reporter At Large: Handguns, The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Nelson.Shields.Quote.C2AE
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"If you believe it reprehensible to possess the means and will to use lethal force to repel a criminal assault, how can you call upon another to do so for you?"
"Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers."
"As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people... The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that government governs only with the consent of the people."
-- three quotes from Jeffrey R. Snyder
American attorney, author
Source: A Nation of Cowards, 113 Public Interest (Fall 1993)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeffrey.Snyder.Quote.F47B