We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

-- Preamble to the Constitution for the United States of America.

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence ... From the hour the pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to endure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indespensible ... The very atmosphere of firearms every where restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."

-- George Washington,  First President of the United States

"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great legislator of the Universe."

-- John Adams, Second President of the United States

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have ... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the character and conduct of their rulers."

-- John Adams, Second President of the United States

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better
than the animating contest of freedom... go home from us in peace. We ask
not your counsels nor arms. May your chains set lightly upon you and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

-- Samuel Adams, American Patriot, 1776

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin

"They who fail to speak out against tyranny imposed upon others are doomed to have that same tyranny imposed upon them."

-- The Man-In-Black

"If you compromise YOUR rights, you are YOUR own worst enemy !!"

"If you compromise MY rights, you are MY worst enemy !!"

-- The Man-In-Black

"Now what liberty is this when property can be taken without permission."

-- Samual Adams, American Patriot

"Asset forfeiture is theft."

-- Steve Williams, SMBC Member

"An injustice that does no harm is still injustice."

-- Tom Clancy -- Author

"The result of any compromise with tyranny is still tyranny."

-- The Man-In-Black

"There is nobody who is more enslaved than the slave who claims he is free -- or defends his slavery."

-- Gerry Spence -- Defense Attorney

"99% Free is still 100% Slave."

-- Victor Mergard -- SMBC Member

"If a man has not discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

-- Martin Luther King

"They may take our lives -- but they'll never take our freedom !"

-- William Wallace -- 'Braveheart'

"We must never be satisfied to 'agree to disagree' when it comes to our freedom and liberty."

-- The Man-In-Black

"Freedom is too precious to be left in the hands of any government."

-- The Man-In-Black

"Resistance is futile !"

-- The Borg -- 'Star Trek, The Next Generation'

"Resistance is everything !"

-- Victor Mergard -- SMBC member

"Never give up !! -- Never surrender !!"

-- Commander Taggart -- 'Galaxy Quest'

"Fighting for freedom is a lot like wrestling a gorilla -- You can't quit when you get tired -- You can only quit when the gorilla gets tired !"

-- Taken from a similiar quote of unknown origin

"Your freedom is not determined by what your government
does FOR you --

Your freedom is determined by what your government
does NOT do TO you !"

-- The Man-In-Black

"The liberals want to rid us all of guns --

The conservatives want to rid us all of drugs --

Between the two, they are ridding us of all our rights and freedoms !"

-- The Sandman (1997)

"The biggest gap between liberals and conservatives is the 'blank space' between the First and Second Amendments in the Bill of Rights!"

-- Paraphrased from 'Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do'

"Guns don't kill people -- the government does."

-- Dale -- 'King of the Hill'

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism; but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until America will one day be a Socialist nation -- without knowing how it happened."

-- Norman Thomas -- Socialist Party candidate for President

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he is
the worst person to be president."

-- George Will, Columnist

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

-- H.L. Mencken

"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."

-- Adolf Hitler

"A little revolution now and then is a healthy thing -- don't you think?"

-- Captain Marko Ramius -- 'The Hunt for Red October' (by Tom Clancy)

"He can't end the war -- He's not producing this !"

-- Dustin Hoffman -- 'Wag The Dog'

"I don't like government -- I never have -- that's why I ran for office."

-- Ed Moore -- Former Pima County Supervisor

"If voting really worked -- it would be illegal."

-- Overheard somewhere -- Repeated by The Man-In-Black

"No government agency has jurisdiction over the truth."

-- Agent Fox Mulder -- 'The X-Files'

"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force !"

-- George Washington, First President of the United States

"The police are not reason. The police are not eloquence. They are force !"

-- Paraphrased from George Washington by The Man-In-Black

"If you ask for MORE police -- you will get LESS freedom !"

-- The Man-In-Black

"Crooked cops -- Do they come any other way ?"

-- Mel Gibson as Porter -- 'Payback'

"The police always lie !"

-- The Man-In-Black

"Let my people go !"

-- Moses

"Kill them all !"

-- Xena - Warrior Princess (may also be attributable to the ATF and the FBI)

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"Freedom is NOT having to ASK the government for permission."

-- The Man-In-Black