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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" - 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution signed and agreeed to by our founding fathers

"Only one adequate plan has ever appeared in the world, and that is the Christian dispensation." - John Jay, First Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." - Oscar Ameringer

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus (Roman senator and historian)

"THE people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them" - Zachariah Johnson

"I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses." - Colonel David Crockett, member of Congress 1827-32, 1832-35

"The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.” The US Congress 1782

"I think the Christian religion is a Divine institution; and I pray to God that I may never forget the precepts of His religion or suffer the appearance of an inconsistency in my principle and practice." - James Iredell Supreme Court Justice

"I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, an the Holy Ghost, the same in substance, equal in power and glary. That the Scriptures of the old and new testaments are a revelation from God and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him." Roger Sherman

"I just need a will of my own. And the balls to stand alone." - KISS "I", Music from the Elder. I'm sorry, the song is just plain bad (love you guys though so don't take it personally), but it is still a damn good quote.

"Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." - Jim Quinn www.warroom.com

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Last words of Nathan Hale

"Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts

"An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease, and security in order that he and his children may retain the rights of all free men." - Harold Ickes

"IT is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered as the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen" John Dewitt

"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengence, more desolation. War is hell." - General William Sherman

"We'll put a boot in your ass; its the American way." - Toby Keith

"The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it."

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton to Bishop Mandell Creighton

"No on is bound to obey an unconstitutional law, and no courts are bound to enforce it." 16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177, late 2d, Sec 256

"The signification attributed to the term, Militia, appear from the debates in the Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense... And further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of a kind in common use at the time." US Supreme Court, US v Miller

"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, that historically has proven to be always possible." Hubert H. Humphrey

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people;…" Saint George Tucker

"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals … It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." - Albert Gallatin

"An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed." Norton vs. Shelby County, 118 US 425 p.442

"No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state...Such area well-regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen" - Richard Henry Lee

"if anti-gun advocates feel prohibiting or confiscating upward of 70 million handguns is justified to save 13 young children's lives, why does saving 381 annually not justify banning swimming pools, or at least prohibiting their proliferation? Is it possible that anti-gun fanatics are motivated more by hatred of guns and their owners than by saving lives?" - "Gun Accidents", by Don B. Kates, Jr.

"I would rather die on my feet, than live on my knees." - Charles Houston

"If the legislature clearly misinterprets a Constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right." Amos v. Mosley, 77 SO 619. Also see Kingsley v. Metril, 99 NW 1044

"Don't try and be a great man. Be a man and let history make its own judgement." - Star Trek: First Contact (Zefram Cochrane)

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." - Tenche Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

"It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart." - Tom Selleck

"We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors ...but they all have to learn to live in the same box." -Author Unknown

"The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing." - unknown origin

"We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle

"Under our form of government, the legislature is not supreme...like other departments of government, it can only exercise such powers as have been delegated to it, and when it steps beyond that boundary, its acts, like those of the most humble magistrate in the state who transcends his jurisdiction, are utterly void." - Billings v. Hall 7 CA 1

"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms."- Richard Henry Lee (Additional letters from the Federal Farmer, at 169, 1788)

"7 When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; this must take place, but the end is still to come. 8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning of the birth pangs." - Mark 13:7-8

"Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace." - St. Augustine

"Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be." - Westbrook v. Mihaly 2 C3d 756

"The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subject peoples to possess arms. So let's not have any talk about native militias." - Adolf Hitler (Hitler's Secret Conversations1941-44, Farrar, Strauss and Young, 1953)

"When any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it." - State v. Sutton 63 Minn 167, 65 NW 262, 30 LRA 630

“Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head” - (Ezek. 33:2-4, KJV).

"If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed. If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt for his bloodshed. He should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." - Exodous 22:2-3

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

"The true test of honor is not in how one dies, but in how one lives." - Superman to Drega. Drega ponders how he could rule without honor by not being granted a heroic death in battle but instead being sent into exile. Justice League CN series (I think this comes from somewhere else too but have not had time to look it up)

"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." Marbury vs. Madison

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." Mahatma Gandhi

"The art of diplomacy is saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a big stick." Will Rogers

"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." - Mao Tse Tung (Problems of War and Strategy, Nov 6 1938, published in "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," 1965)

"But you must remember, my fellowcitizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." - Andrew Jackson March 4, 1837

"It cannot be presumed that any clause in the Constitution is intended to be without effect..." - Chief Justice John Marshall

"Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them." Miranda vs. Arizona

“Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." - US Senator Robert Byrd (D- WV) 1944

"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America." - Harry Truman 1911(letter to his future wife Bess)

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." - Mary Frances Berry (US Commission on Civil Rights) *How utterly RACIST!

"The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs." - Sandra Bernhard (reference to the war on terrorism)

"Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!" - Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders concerning the war on terror *If rooting against your own country isn't un-patriotic I don't know what is.

"(W)hen Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement." - Janeane Garofalo *So the world was better off when a couple 100 million people were forcibly deprived of thier civil rights? Remind me never to vote for you.

"Just so you know, we're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas." - Natalie Maines, the Dixie Chicks (concert in London)

"I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. This war is wrong and this war is un-American." - Dave Matthews concerning the war on terror

"How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?" - Susan Sarandon *Well Susan, apparently it works by killing or driving off the brutal dictator that previously resided there. Hey look! It worked! DUH!

"The risks that the leader of a rogue state can use biological or chemical weapons on us or our allies is the greatest security risk we face," - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (February 18, 1998)

"The only answer to aggression and outlaw behaviour is firmness. . . He (Saddam) will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and some day, some way, I am certain he will use that arsenal again, as he has 10 times since 1983." - National Security Adviser Sandy Berger (February 18, 1998)

"And that is why, along with Senators McCain, Lieberman, and Hutchison, I am circulating among our Senate colleagues a letter to President Clinton, urging him, in consultation with Congress, consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take effective actions, including if appropriate, the use of air strikes, to respond to the Iraqi threat." - Senator Carl Levin of Michigan (October 6, 1998)

"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." - Representative Nancy Pelosi CA (December 16, 1998)

"I believe in negotiated solutions to international conflict. This is, unfortunately, not going to be the case in this situation where Saddam Hussein has been a repeat offender, ignoring the international community's requirement that he come clean with his weapons program. While I support the President, I hope and pray that this conflict can be resolved quickly and that the international community can find a lasting solution through diplomatic means." - Representative Nancy Pelosi CA (December 16, 1998) *This is a prime example of "double speak". Nancy first says that she knows that negotiated solutions are not going to work but in the very next breath continues to hope (contrary to her own knowledge) that diplomacy can be used.

"There has never been an embargo against food and medicine. It's just that Hussein has just not chosen to spend his money on that. Instead, he has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction, and palaces for his cronies." - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (November 10, 1999)

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandates of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." - Senator Carl Levin (Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee) (September 19, 2002)

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." - Senator Ted Kennedy MA (September 27, 2002)

"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retained some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capability. Intelligence reports also indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons, but has not yet achieved nuclear capability. It is now October of 2002. " - Senator Robert Byrd WV (October 2002)

"When I vote to give the President of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, it is because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security and that of our allies in the Persian Gulf region. I will vote yes because I believe it is the best way to hold Saddam Hussein accountable. And the administration, I believe, is now committed to a recognition that war must be the last option to address this threat, not the first, and that we must act in concert with allies around the globe to make the world's case against Saddam Hussein." - Senator John Kerry MA (October 2002)

"If we do wind up going to war with Iraq, it is imperative that we do so with others in the international community, unless there is a showing of a grave, imminent — and I emphasize "imminent" — threat to this country which requires the President to respond in a way that protects our immediate national security needs." - Senator John Kerry (October 2002). *Shown to put in perspective where the term "imminent" came from and how it is now used to attempt to show that the President "lied".

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years. And that may happen sooner if he can obtain access to enriched uranium from foreign sources — something that is not that difficult in the current world. We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." - Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (October 2002)

"When Saddam Hussein obtains nuclear capabilities, the constraints he feels will diminish dramatically, and the risk to America's homeland, as well as to America's allies, will increase even more dramatically. Our existing policies to contain or counter Saddam will become irrelevant. Americans will return to a situation like that we faced in the Cold War, waking each morning knowing we are at risk from nuclear blackmail by a dictatorship that has declared itself to be our enemy. Only, back then, our communist foes were a rational and predictable bureaucracy; this time, our nuclear foe would be an unpredictable and often irrational individual, a dictator who has demonstrated that he is prepared to violate international law and initiate unprovoked attacks when he feels it serves his purposes to do so." - Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (October 2002)

"The global community - in the form of the United Nations - has declared repeatedly, through multiple resolutions, that the frightening prospect of a nuclear-armed Saddam cannot come to pass. But the U.N. has been unable to enforce those resolutions. We must eliminate that threat now, before it is too late." - Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (October 2002)

"I am forced to conclude, on all the evidence, that Saddam poses a significant risk." - Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (October 2002)

"Whether one agrees or disagrees with the Administration's policy towards Iraq, I don't think there can be any question about Saddam's conduct. He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts." - Congressman Henry Waxman CA (October 2002)

"What Saddam has done in the (4 years since UN inspectors left) is not known for certain - but there is every evidence, from the dossier prepared by the Prime Minister of Britain, to President Bush's speech at the United Nations, that Saddam has rebuilt substantial chemical and biological weapons stocks, and that he is determined to obtain the means necessary to produce nuclear weapons." - Congressman Henry Waxman CA (October 2002)

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001." - Senator Hillary Clinton (October 2002)

"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." - Richard Henry Lee Founding Father

"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn

"Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow." - Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress

"He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who set himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country." - John Witherspoon, member of the Continental Congress and clergyman

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." - Charles Carroll, signatory of the Declaration of Independence

"The rights essential to happiness.... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth." - JohnDickinson, signatory the Constitution, member of the Continental Congress

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." - Edmund Burke

"Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms." - Aristotle

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." - Joseph Story Commentaries on the Constitution 1833

"If the Constitution is to be construed to mean what the majority at any given period in history wish the Constitution to mean, why a written Constitution?"--Frank J. Hogan President of American Bar Association 1939

"(E)very child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity... It's up to you teachers to make all these sick children well by creating the international children of the future."- Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Professor of Education and Psychiatry, Medicine and Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (1972 address to the Association for Childhood Education International in Denver)

"Oppose SB 196, the Parental Rights for Public School Children. Tell legislators that this legislation is not needed. It may render schools ineffective as change agents since it would place all curricula in the hands of the parents." - March 22, 1972 "Newsletter" Of the Prince George's County, MD, Educational Association

"You are a target of the Far Right... (if) you ask students to examine their values, teach sex education, ever indicate it may be OK to lie, teach about values different from those of the students' parents, teach that 'anything goes' or 'if you feel it's OK, do it,' train your students to be 'global citizens,' teach humanism, etc." - "Combatting the New Right", a 1977 training program developed by the NEA Western States Regional Staff

"Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?" - Charles Francis Potter, a signer of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto, in "Humanism: A New Religion", 1930

"You have been instructed form your childhood in the knowledge of your lost state by nature; the absolute necessity of a change of heart, and an entire renovation of soul to the image of Jesus Christ; of salvation thro' His meritorious righteousness only; and the indispensable necessity of personal holiness without which no man shall see the Lord." - Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress

"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed in to political and economic decline." - Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific during WWII

"There is not a truth to be gathered form history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty." - Joseph Story, Congressman and Supreme Court Justice

"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority for that law which is divine...far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other." - James Wilson (signatory of the Constitution)

"From Berlin, Rome and Tokyo we have been described as a nation of weaklings -- "playboys" -- who would hire British soldiers, or Russian soldiers, or Chinese soldiers to do our fighting for us. Let them repeat that now! Let them tell that to General MacArthur and his men. Let them tell that to the sailors who today are hitting hard in the far waters of the Pacific. Let them tell that to the boys in the Flying Fortresses. Let them tell that to the Marines!" - President Franklin Roosevelt February 23, 1942