Pro-Freedom Quotes

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These things I believe:

  1. That government should butt out.
  3. That individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
  4. That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
  6. That political parties have become close to meaningless.
  8. That government should provide for the national defense and work to insure domestic tranquility.
  9. That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
  10. That America should be wary of foreign entanglements.
  13. That states are the bulwark of our freedom.
  14. That states should have the right to secede from the Union.

-- Lyn Nofziger
Press Secretary for President Reagan

The Constitution was written to protect THE PEOPLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT -
NOT to protect the government from the people!
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I'd rather have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it."
- Christian Slater (In the movie "True Romance")
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Edmund Burke
- Lord Acton
- Samuel Adams
- Samuel Adams
- Samuel Adams
"Be more wary of the rights you are willing to give away, just because YOU are not using them -- the next person may be willing to give away YOUR rights."
- Dave Tomlinson, NFA
"When law and morality contradict each other the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his or her sense of morality or losing his or her respect for the law"
- Frederick Bastiat
- Bruce Montague


   - Bernard H. Levin, FBI National Academy Associate, November/December 2004, Volume 6, Number 6, Page 25.

"Anti-domestic violence and women's groups create the impression that guns are always part of the problem and never part of the solution. The current mainstream of feminism -- from which most anti-domestic violence advocates proceed -- is an expression of left liberalism. It rejects private solutions based on individual rights in favor of laws aimed at achieving social goals. 

A responsible individual holding a gun in self-defense does not fit their vision of society. In the final analysis, such advocates do not trust the judgment of the women they claim to be defending. ... The true meaning of being anti-domestic violence means is to help victims out of their victimhood and into a position of power."

-- Wendy McElroy


- F.A. Hayek

- Mark Twain
- Robert Heinlein
- Thomas Jefferson
- Ludwig von Mises


- Ayn Rand

- Woodrow Wilson
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common, they don't alter the their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable, if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
- Doctor Who, The Face of Evil.
"The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill."
- Ayn Rand
- Edward Abbey
- H.L. Mencken
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
- Aesop
- Dante
"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for the good men to do nothing."
- unknown
"Better to die on your feet,... than to live on your knees"
- Zappata
"Live free or die."
- the caption on New Hampshire license plate
"If you have got to resist, your chances of being hurt are less, the more lethal your weapon."
- Dr. Arthur Kellerman New England Journal of Medicine
"A gun is 32 times more likely to be used to defend against criminal threat than to kill anybody."
- Dr. Preston Covey
- Thomas Jefferson
"Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble"
- Harry S. Truman
"LIBERTY is something you cannot have, unless you are willing to give it to others."
- Unknown
"Reckless, homicidal and suicidal people may own guns but gun ownership does not make anyone reckless, homicidal or suicidal."
- Dr. Preston Covey

"In Germany they first came for the communists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
They came for the Jews
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade Unionists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

- -Pastor Martin Niemoller (Lutheran Pastor)

"A land where only the police (and military) have guns is called a Police State!"
- Albert Einstein
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience,..."
- John Locke,2nd Treatise of Government,1690
Henry Bowman asks his professor "Prof, Arkes, I don't disagree with the basic principle, but it's not enough just to say, "Totaltarian regimes are wrong, so don't let the State enslave you". That's like saying, "Don't get sick". The important question is, when do you know it's going to become enslavement? When is the proper time to resist with force?"...... But when you're naked and seventy pounds below your healthy weight, it's too late. You have no chance. On the other hand, no one would support you if you started an armed rebellion because the government posts speed limits on open roads and arrests people for speeding. So when is it not too late, but also not too early?
-- Unintended Consequences by John Ross, Page 337
"It is true that I must run great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger."
- letter to the American Commissioners in Paris, 1778.
>From 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' by Robert Heinlein;


- unknown
- Mark Twain
"The best way to lose your freedoms is to stop exercising them."
"Guard with jealous attention the public LIBERTY. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, NOTHING will preserve it BUT downright FORCE. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined... The great object is that every man be armed... everyone who is able may have a gun."
- Patrick Henry (in 3 Elliot at 45)
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have the sheep for dinner, and finding a well-informed and well-armed sheep."
- Thomas Paine
- Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanlysis
"A ruler is legitimate only in so far as he upholds the law. A ruler that violates the law is illegitimate. He has no right to be obeyed; his commands are mere force and Rulers who act lawlessly, whose laws are unlawful, are mere criminals."
- John Locke
"Freedom consists in a people's being governed by laws made with their own consent."
- Swift: Drapier's Letters (1725).
In logic, to deny a necessary consequence is to deny the premise on which it rests -no matter what the motives of the denier. To deny the right to arms is to deny the right to live. The rest is just a matter of time, circumstance, and how much the leftists think they can get away with.
- Peter Landry
- H.L. Mencken
A note on democracy: As a Supreme Court Justice recently said; "Five people in a life raft cannot, as an act of democracy, vote in favour of eating the sixth."
- John Stuart Mill
"I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at"
- Claire Wolfe
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are inclined to obey the law.
- From Unintended Consequences by John Ross

Unregistered Firearms in the hands of honest citizens: Liberty's Teeth.
Strong Cryptographic tools in the hands of honest citizens: Liberty's Voice.

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Hoplophobia (n.): The irrational fear of weapons, correctly described by Freud as "a sign of emotional and sexual immaturity". Hoplophobia, like homophobia, is a displacement symptom; hoplophobes fear their own "forbidden" feelings and urges to commit violence. This would be harmless, except that they project these feelings onto others. The sequela of this neurosis include irrational and dangerous behaviors such as passing "gun-control" laws and trashing the Constitution.
He who goes unarmed in paradise, had better be sure that that is where he is.
- unknown
"No democracy that so distrusts the majority can long remain a democracy; it becomes a police state in the worst tradition of police states."
- Unknown
We are free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire a dangerous servant and a terrible master."
- George Washington
- Edward Abbey "The Right to Arms" [New York, 1979]
- Jeffrey R. Snyder, "A Nation of Cowards"
"One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms".
- Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
- Aristotle, "Politics"
I am willing to defend my property and liberty with the same force and enthusiasm as the ones that try to take it away!
- Bruce Montague.
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience", 1849
"Canadian politicians, unlike Americans or those who've actually lived under oppression, value peace higher than freedom. Peace-seekers need reminding that cattle on a well-run farm have the ideal peaceful existence: abundant food, warm accommodation, no threats - until the day they go to the slaughter house. That's not the sort of peace most of us value." Peace is Lloyd's game, a Nobel Prize is his aim
- PETER WORTHINGTON Toronto Sun January 12, 1999
"Experience hath shewn [sic] that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
- Thomes Jefferson
When asked "Is it worth risking my life to defend my property?", I ask "Is it worth risking your life to take away my property?"
- Bruce Montague.
- Frederich Douglass
"A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either."
- Benjamin Franklin
"...when you ask 'What can one do?'- the answer is 'SPEAK' (provided you know what you are saying)....Speak on any scale open to you, large or small....Do not pass up a chance to express your views on important issues."
- Ayn Rand
"Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions."
- James Bovard
"One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force."
- Bruce Montague
- Tacitus
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only after the last Gun is seized.
Only then will you find out that Money Cannot Be Eaten.
~Cree Prophecy~
" "Trusting contemporary governments means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people's lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives. Modern Leviathans seek progress by giving some people the power to play God with other people's lives, property, and domestic tranquility."
- James Bovard
You don't have to go through life snarling, but it's knowing you're willing to fight that keeps the other dogs out of your dish.
- Unknown
- Ayn Rand
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
- Democritus (460-370 BC)
"Sovereign immunity creates a two-tier society - those above the law and those below it, those whom the law fails to bind and those whom the law fails to protect. In some parts of this nation, laws against abusing pets are better enforced than are laws against government employees abusing citizens. Sovereign immunity presumes that the more evils that government officials are permitted to commit, the more good they will achieve. Sovereign immunity presumes that in order to protect people, government must be permitted to destroy them."
- James Bovard- freedom in chains
- Ayn Rand
The following appears to be the mindset of the anti-gun group:
  1. "The more helpless you are, the safer you are from criminals."

- excerpted from a list by Michael Z. Williamson.

- Herbert Spencer
"FREEDOM" For those who Fought, Bled and Died For It
"FREEDOM" has a flavour the protected will never Know or Savor.
- Anonymous
"Our country is at an awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolfe
"Those of us who support the citizens' right to guns believe the vast majority of people make good choices. Anti-gunners have much less faith in others; perhaps even in themselves."
- unknown
Only crooked politicians fear armed citizens.
- unknown
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the labourer that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
- Adam Smith
- F.A. Hayek
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
- Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme court (1939-75)
"We don't have a gun control problem in Canada.
We have a government control problem in Ottawa".
- unknown

"Pity the poor, wretched timid soul who is too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the damned:

"I can't fight back, I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard for what I have; they will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about."

Such poor miserable creatures are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility."

- Author Unknown - If you have that much to fight for, then you should be fighting.

"Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction"
- Thomas Fuller
- William Pitt, Speech to the house of Commons, 18 November, 1783

Misc. One-Liners

- An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
- A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
- Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface.
- Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
- If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
- Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
- If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
- Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
- 64,999,987 firearm owners killed no one yesterday.
- Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Politicians.
- Know guns, Know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
- You don't shoot to kill; You shoot to stay alive.
- 911 - government sponsored Dial a Prayer.
- Assault is a behavior, not a device.
- Criminals love gun control - it makes their jobs safer.
- If Guns cause Crime, then Matches cause Arson.
- Only a government that is afraid of it's citizens try to control them.
- You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
- When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
- The American Revolution would never have happened with Gun Control.

"You may not like guns. You may choose not to own one. That is your right.

You might not believe in God. That is your choice.

However, if someone breaks into your home at 3AM the first two things you are going to do are:

1) Call someone with a gun.
2)Pray they get there in time."

- A wise man.

"They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom, For trying to change the system from within."
- Leonard Cohen
"We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life."
- Robert the Bruce
If you can't trust a weapon to an individual, how can you trust it to a group of individuals?
- unknown
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people except by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."
- Patrick Henry
In an October, 1995 speech to a woman's group, the registry's chief architect, Justice Minister Allan Rock proclaimed that "guns in the hands of criminals are not the problem - guns in our homes are the problem".
- H.L.Mencken
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function if they are open."
-author unknown
- Alberta Provincial Court Judge Demetrick
- Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century moralist.
"Fear of death will not prevent dying, but it may prevent living"
- Anonymous
- Lyndon B. Johnson
A self righteous Liberal with a cause, is more dangerous than a Hells Angel with an attitude.
- unknown
- Jerome Barkow, Anthropologist, Dalhousie University, 1989
"War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degrading moral value which believes that no freedom is worth fighting for is much worse. These men are never truly free unless their freedom is secured and maintained for them by better men."
- Anonymous US NCO, 101"t Airborne Div, 1991
"Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be preferable to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
- C.S. Lewis
- Henry David Thoreau


  1. From bondage to spiritual faith,
  2. from spiritual faith to great courage,
  3. from courage to liberty,
  4. from liberty to abundance,
  5. from abundance to complacency,
  6. from complacency to apathy,
  7. from apathy to dependence,
  8. from dependence back again to bondage.

- Professor Alexander Tyler. 1874

No one ever said our freedoms would come cheap. Some we must be prepared to fight for, some we must be prepared to die for. Take freedom for granted once and it could be gone forever.
- Pierre Lemieux [LIBERTY Magazine Nov. '97]
- Voltaire
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
If we don't all hang together, we will surely be hanged seperately!
- unknown.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge, Past President of the United States.