Historical Quotes

"This year 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!"
- Adolph Hitler

"The art of leadership...consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention... The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
- Adolf Hitler

"In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it."
-- Mark Twain

President Jefferson Davis "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."

"We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms." President Jefferson Davis, 29 April, 1861

Let men not ask what the law requires,
but give whatever freedom demands."
---Jefferson Davis

"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of
specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." Charles Dickens, 1862,

"Those who trade essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

"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 Ghandi

"It is highly probable that had a popular election been held at any time during the year following the 4th of July, 1862, on the question of continuing the war, or arresting it on the best attainable terms, a majority would have voted for peace; while it is highly probable that a still larger majority would have voted against emancipation." Horace Greeley Yankee Reporter

"I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war
that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your
heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing life blood of liberty inside
you....the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the
miracle that it is." --Charlton Heston, Harvard Law School Forum, February 16, 1999

 

"Let us be certain that our children know that the war between the States was not a contest for the preservation of slavery, as some would have them to believe, but that it was a great struggle for the maintenance of Constitutional rights, and that men who fought Were warriors tried and true, Who bore the flags of a Nation's trust, And fell in a cause, though lost, still just,
And died for me and you."
J. Taylor Ellyson

"The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force." - Adolf Hitler

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to posess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."--Adolf Hitler

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Thomas Jefferson

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people (10th Amendment). To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus
specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition."
--- Thomas Jefferson (The WBTS was fought over this 10th Amendment)

"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson