Minuteman Monthly
Issue 38
September 2003


<<<<<<<<<<IMPORTANT NOTICE>>>>>>>>>

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
TO: Members and Subscribers
FROM: Marc Richardson
RE: www.SaveTheGuns.com and Minuteman Monthly

Members and Subscribers,

I am moving my family from Massachusetts to Maine in October.  I will not be
creating a Minuteman Monthly Newsletter for the Fall and possibly some of
the Winter, depending upon the building of my new home in Maine.

I will be unavailable for all communications throughout these months.  Any
e-mails sent to me will be simply bounced back to you.  This goes for my
personal e-mail account, which I know some of you have also.

In addition to this, all forms and all items for sale will be disabled
beginning some time in early September.

As soon as I am back online in my newly built home, I will send out a notice
to all of you saying that I am back in the fight to SAVE-THE-GUNS.

Until then, you can use the message board to communicate with me, but I will
not be checking it very often.  I thank you very much for your help and
support up until this point and I really look forward to getting back online
in Maine and beginning the fight for Election Day 2004.

Sincerely,
Marc
Owner and Founder
www.SaveTheGuns.com

September Minuteman Monthly Follows This Announcement

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Hello again, yep, this is what you've been waiting for all month.  The
September issue of the newsletter for www.SaveTheGuns.com, the Minuteman
Monthly.

Members of SaveTheGuns.com should think of themselves as colonial minutemen
with a ready musket just inside the door, waiting for you to grab and leave
at a minute's notice.  Really though, the weapons we use in this modern day
battle are the telephone, the Internet and the good ol' pen and paper.  Be a
Keyboard Minuteman and respond accordingly to any alerts that you may
receive.

The enemies of today's America are not wearing red coats and are not easily
defined and ascertained.  Today's foes of freedom hide under the left wing
of the Democrat Party.  The enemies of our pre-existing rights to arms in
modern days hide behind our own flag and conceal themselves behind
"Political Correctness" and liberal philosophy.

Almost without exception, the efforts to disarm our own people and attempts
at opening the locked door that could lead to tyranny in America, are
proposed, supported and voted for by the Democrats.

Yes, I am fully aware that there are pro-Second Amendment Democrats out
there, but they are a pitiful minority.  Efforts to disarm lawful American
men and women and thereby opening the doorway to despotism and
totalitarianism in the United States come mostly from the left-wing of the
Democrat Party.  Far left Democrats who hide behind "Old Glory" and
amusingly try to call themselves patriotic should be soundly defeated in the
upcoming 2004 elections.

Election Day 2004 is on November 4th.  Make sure you vote.  Make sure you
check your candidate's stand on the Second Amendment and crime.

We cannot sit back on our laurels and think we will maintain a pro-Second
Amendment majority.  We must make concerted efforts to guarantee it happens.
Remember how it felt to watch the semi-auto ban vote in Congress in 1994 and
how powerless you felt???  NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!

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QUOTES OF THE MONTH


"What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our
desire for healthy campaigns and a healthy democracy.  You can't have both."
2004 Presidential Candidate Richard "Dick" Gephardt


"Anything that makes it easier to get guns is a bad thing."
ABC NewsAnchor Cokie Roberts 5/12/02
(More evidence of a biased media.)


"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was
landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms never, never, never!
You cannot conquer America."
William Pitt, Speech, November 18, 1777


"Arms in the hands of individual citizens [may] be used at individual
discretion...in private self-defense..."
John Adams, A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States
of America, 1788


"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and
prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and
you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from
society."
Benjamin Franklin


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SAVETHEGUNS.COM GUN SAFETY TIP OF THE MONTH

Hunting season is nearly upon us.  The chances are good that a few hunters
will be seriously injured again this year.

What are some of the things we can do to prevent any hospital runs in this
coming season?

Here are a few:

** Watch that muzzle!!  While walking with other hunters, be conscious of
where your barrel is looking.


**Don't fire at movement!!  Try to identify the sex of the animal before you
let the shot go.  This will guarantee that a woman hanging out laundry in a
fur coat will not be injured.  (Yes, a couple years ago in Maine, a woman
was shot while hanging laundry in a brown coat with a white collar.  Pretty
stupid thing to wear during hunting season, but careful identification would
have prevented it.)


**Never jump a ditch, climb a fence or work through heavy brush with a
chambered round!!  I was almost shot one year because my partner's safety
was clicked off and the trigger was pulled by heavy brush.  A rare thing,
but quite possible.

STAY SAFE THIS HUNTING SEASON!!

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SEPTEMBER MINUTEMAN MONTHLY AIMING POINT

What did the Founding Fathers really think?  What did they think about
freedom, private firearm ownership and how religion and morality are
absolutely necessary in a free Constitutional Republic?

The September issue of this newsletter is the last one I will be doing for
months.  It may be six (6) months or more before I have the time and ability
to begin these newsletters again.

Because it will be a while before I am able to communicate with you again, I
am making this newsletter the most important one and the longest one, I have
ever made.

Please find time to sit at your computer, turn off the television and tell
the family that you are not to be bothered for a while.  Make yourself a pot
of coffee and enjoy this most important newsletter.

Make certain that you forward it to people you know...

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WHAT DID THEY SAY?

What did the Founding Fathers write, think and say about freedom, private
firearm ownership and what role religion and morality must play in a free
Constitutional Republic?  These quotations that I send you in this month's
newsletter confirm everything I have been saying for more than twenty years.

I will focus first upon quotations from the Founding Fathers concerning
freedom, gun ownership and the militia which give clarity to what they
intended the Second Amendment to mean.  After that, I will list quotations
from the Founding Fathers and those who have played important roles in
America throughout history concerning the need for conducting our lives
within a framework of religion and morality.

I know this newsletter is a long one, but believe me, it took a thousand
times longer to compile...

PLEASE ENJOY THE FOLLOWING 152 QUOTATIONS!!!!
THESE QUOTATIONS MEAN EVERYTHING TO FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THE ONLY PLACE ON
THE INTERNET YOU CAN FIND ALL 152 OF THEM IS AT http://www.SaveTheGuns.com


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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty
than to those attending too small a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson, 1791



"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom
which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent
posterity have a right to receive from us."
Thomas Jefferson




"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless
minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams "The Father of the American Revolution"




"On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry
ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the
spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be
squeezed out of the text, or invent against it, conform to the probable one
in which it was passed."
Thomas Jefferson June 12, 1823




"I hope, therefore, a bill of rights will be formed to guard the people
against the Federal government as they are already guarded against their
State governments, in most instances."
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:98





"Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity and resolve to maintain
the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The
necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection,
deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we
suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and
involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration that
millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event."
Samuel Adams speech, 1771





"I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so
interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided
with common fire-arms.  I did not suppose any part of the United States so
destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm
house."
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Jacob J. Brown (1808)





"God grants Liberty only to those who live it, and are always ready to guard
and defend it."
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) (Secretary of State under three U.S. Presidents)





"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither
inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for
the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage
than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater
confidence than an armed man."
 Thomas Jefferson





"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should
have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence
from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own
government."
George Washington





"Such are a 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."
"M.T. Cicero"  1788





"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments
it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest
limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of
the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever,
prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of
destruction."
Blackstone's 1768 "Commentaries on the Laws of England"






"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may
attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally
raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of
their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their
right to keep and bear their private arms."
Tench Coxe, June 18, 1789





"The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms has justly been considered the
palladium of the liberties of the 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, United States Supreme Court Justice, 1833





"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
Edmund Burke, Speech at country meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784





"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson





"The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the
'government', not to 'society'; and as long as they have nothing to revenge
in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands)
there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and
no possible disadvantage."
Joel Barlow, Advice to the Privileged Orders, 1792-93






"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent
in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824





"To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George
Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of
my swords or Cutteaux of which I may be Possessed; and they are to choose in
the order they are named. These Swords are accompanied with an injunction
not to unsheathe them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for
self defense, or in the defense of their Country and its rights; and in the
latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their
hands, to the relinquishment thereof."
George Washington from his Last Will and Testament






"An act against the Constitution is void.  An act against natural equity is
void."
James Otis (1725-1783)





"The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword,
because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force
superior to any band of regular troops..."
Noah Webster, An Examination of The Leading Principles of the Federal
Constitution,  Philadelphia 1787
Noah Webster American Patriot (1758-1843) (Author of America's first
dictionary)




"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.  Suspect everyone who
approaches that jewel.  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but
downright force.  When you give up that force, you are ruined."
Patrick Henry, Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention





"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for
them."
Thomas Jefferson  to George Washington, 1796





"The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army,
and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.  Remember officers and
Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty that
slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not
acquit yourselves like men."
George Washington






"[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and
brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys
the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves,
and of discerning the cause of their oppression."
Joel Barlow, Advice to the Privileged Orders, 1792-93





"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was
landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms never, never, never!
You cannot conquer America."
William Pitt, Speech, November 18, 1777





"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759





"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776





"Arms in the hands of individual citizens [may] be used at individual
discretion...in private self-defense..."
John Adams, A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States
of America, 1788





"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 (1744-1814)




"(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans
possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the
governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
James Madison, The Federalist, Number 46





"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.  To keep ours
armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
Thomas Jefferson 1803





"Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense,
the militia is put in the hands of Congress?"
Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot Debates 48.




"The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing
army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of
the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to
bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of
more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a
militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their
hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their
common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their
affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus
circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular
troops."
James Madison, The Federalist, Number 46, January 29, 1788





"I ask what is the purpose of the militia? To offset the need of large
standing armies, the bane of liberty."
Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts





"The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are
declared to be inherent in the people."
Fisher Ames, of Massachusetts June 12, 1789





"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no
recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense
which is paramount to all positive forms of government."
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #28





"... as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a
constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving
to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less.  And this has
alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in
dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people.  Generally indeed the
ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly
increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of
more.  The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes;
the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans
and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to
plunder at pleasure.  There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if
he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money,
then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for
ever ..."
Benjamin Franklin, before the Constitutional Convention, (June 2, 1787)





"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon
the earth for honest men to live in."
Thomas Paine





"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a
well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free
country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be
compelled to render military service in person."
James Madison, Proposed Amendments to the Constitution June 8, 1789





"They tell us that we are weak-unable to cope with so formidable an
adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be when we are totally
disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Three
million people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, are invincible by any
force which our enemy can send against us."
Patrick Henry, 1775
Webmaster's Note:  It is interesting to note that the population in 1775,
was approximately 2.9 million.  In Patrick Henry's above quotation, he
refers to ALL THE PEOPLE, and NOT just those meeting the qualifications of
service in the Militia.




"Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for
the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private
self-defense."
John Adams





"The power of the sword, say the minority of Pennsylvania, is in the hands
of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for the powers of the
sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from 16 to 60. The militia
of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when
compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who
are the militia? Are they not ourselves? It is feared, then, that we shall
turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress has no power to
disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the
soldier, are the birthright of an American. The 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."
Tench Coxe, writing as "the Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal
Gazette, 1788
Tench Coxe (Alexander Hamilton's Chief Assistant in the Treasury Department)




"All persons shall bear arms, and every male person shall have in continual
readiness a good musket or other gun, fit for service."
Connecticut Gun Code of 1650





"Suppose that we let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the
country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal:
still it would not be going to far to say that the State governments with
the people at their side would be able to repel the danger...half a million
citizens with arms in their hands"
James Madison, The Federalist Papers





"That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained
to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state; that
standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to
liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict
subordination to, and governed by, the civil power."
Virginia Declaration of Rights 13 (June 12, 1776), drafted by George Mason





"The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been recognized by the
General Government; but the best security of that right after all is, the
military spirit, that taste for martial exercises, which has always
distinguished the free citizens of these States....Such men form the best
barrier to the liberties of America"
Gazette of the United States October 14, 1789





"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I
advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives
boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the
ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no
character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of
your walks."
Thomas Jefferson's advice to his 15 year-old nephew





"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to
life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to
defend them in the best manner they can."
Samuel Adams




"...[A]rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and
preserve order in the world as well as property...Horrid mischief would
ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Thomas Paine, Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775





"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, Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer, 1788





False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for
one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men
because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy
for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are
laws of such a nature. They disarm those only who are neither inclined nor
determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the
courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of
the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be
violated with ease and impunity, and which, if so dear to the enlightened
legislator - and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the
guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted
and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to
prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater
confidence than an armed man. They ought to be designated as laws not
preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a
few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the
inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree.
Criminologist Cesare Beccaria On Crimes and Punishments (1764)





"... of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech
and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal
cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and
bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against
encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into
tyranny."
James Monroe




"...It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army
stationed among them, over which they have no control...The Militia is
composed of free Citizens.  There is therefore no danger of their making use
of their power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others
to invade them."
Samuel Adams





"The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a
select militia. ....all regulations tending to render this general militia
useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or
distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and
attachments to the community ought to be avoided."
Richard Henry Lee





"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! - I know not what course others
may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry





"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination,
or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and
evidence."
John Adams





"...if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and
kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to 'bind me in
all cases whatsoever' to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?"
Thomas Paine






"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to
arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
James Madison





"I ask sir, what is the militia?  It is the whole body of the people except
for a few public officials.  To disarm the people is the best and most
effectual way to enslave them..."
George Mason





"The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large,
will render many troops quite unnecessary. They will form a powerful check
upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them"
Tench Coxe, An American Citizen IV, October 21, 1787




"The great object is that every man be armed.  Everyone who is able may have
a gun."
Patrick Henry





"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large, is that they be
properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton




"The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to
infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to
prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from
keeping their own arms."
Samuel Adams of Massachusetts -- U.S. Constitution ratification convention,
1788




"Are we at least brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation,
that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the
difference between having our arms in our possession and under our own
direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense
be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted
with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot Debates 168-169.





"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... And
what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from
time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them
take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with
the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson, in letter to William S. Smith, 1787



"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 are a 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."
State Gazette (Charleston), September 8, 1788




"...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an
army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of
the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all
inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend
their rights..."
Alexander Hamilton Federalist 29




"While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of
noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of
tyranny."
Rev. Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789




"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are
in almost every kingdom in Europe."
Noah Webster




"Instances of the licentious and outrageous behavior of the military
conservators of the peace still multiply upon us, some of which are of such
nature and have been carried to so great lengths as must serve fully to
evince that a late vote of this town, calling upon the inhabitants to
provide themselves with arms for their defense, was a measure as prudent as
it was legal. It is a natural right which the people have reserved to
themselves, confirmed by the [English] Bill of Rights, to keep arms for
their own defense, and as Mr. Blackstone observes it is to be made use of
when the sanctions of society and law are found insufficient to restrain the
violence of oppression."
From "A Journal of the Times", calling the citizens of Boston to arm
themselves in response to British abuses of power, 1769




"And we do each of us, for ourselves respectively, promise and engage to
keep a good firelock in proper order, and to furnish ourselves as soon as
possible with, and always keep by us, one pound of gunpowder, four pounds of
lead, one dozen gunflints, and a pair of bullet moulds, with a cartouch box,
or powder horn, and bag for balls."
George Mason's Fairfax County Militia Plan, 1775





"Altho' a large standing Army in time of Peace hath ever been considered
dangerous to the liberties of a Country, yet a few Troops, under certain
circumstances, are not only safe, but indispensably necessary. Fortunately
for us our relative situation requires but few. The same circumstances which
so effectually retarded, and in the end conspired to defeat the attempts of
Britain to subdue us, will now powerfully tend to render us secure. Our
distance from the European States in a great degree frees us of
apprehension, from their numerous regular forces and the Insults and dangers
which are to be dreaded from their Ambition."
George Washington May 1, 1783





"...As there is not the least doubt at present, that the principle Object of
the Enemy is to get Possession of the City of Philadelphia, it is absolutely
necessary, that every Person able to bear Arms (except such as are
Conscientiously scrupulous against it in every Case), should give their
personal Service, and whenever a part of the Militia is required only,
either to join the Army or find a Man in their place. In order to effect
this, I beg you will order the whole Militia of your State to be enrolled
and compleatly equipp'd; that one half at least may proceed to join the Army
with all possible expedition..."
George Washington--to Pennsylvania Safety Council, January 19, 1777


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Next up...morality and religion.  The following quotations will never be
seen in America's public school system.  They will more than likely not even
be spoken from church pulpits in the "Politically Correct" environment that
we unfortunately find ourselves wallowing in.

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QUOTES REGARDING MORALITY AND RELIGION


"Respect for religion must be reestablished, public debt should be reduced,
the arrogance of public officials must be curtailed, assistance to foreign
lands must be stopped or we shall bankrupt ourselves.  The people should be
forced to work and not depend on the government for subsistence."
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and philosopher (106-43BC)




"Our task and our duty must be to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly
with our God, for we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill
and the eyes of all are upon us."
John Winthrop (1588-1649) Puritan and Governor of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony from 1630 to 1649




"Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider
well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ
which is eternally life."
Harvard University (Pamphlet published in 1643)




"Christ is the only, the true, the living way of access to God."
Timothy Dwight, Yale University President (1795-1817)




"Give up yourselves therefore to Him, [God] with a cordial confidence, and
the great work of life is done."
Timothy Dwight, Yale University President (1814 Baccalaureate Discourse)




"The chief Thing that is aimed at in this College is to teach and engage the
Children to know God in Jesus Christ, and to love and serve Him, in all
Sobriety, Godliness, and Righteousness of Life, with a perfect Heart, and a
willing Mind."
Columbia University publication (1754)




"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public
officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose
for rulers, "just men who will rule in the fear of God."  The preservation
of [our] government depends on the faithful discharge of this Duty; if the
citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the
government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public
good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men
will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be
squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated
or disregarded.  If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and
happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands, and
elect bad men to make and administer the Laws."
Noah Webster 1758-1843




"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred
as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice
to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and
'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made
inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made
free."
John Adams




"I have the most animating confidence that the present noble struggle for
liberty will terminate gloriously for America.Let us humbly commit our
righteous cause to the great Lord of the Universe, who loveth righteousness
and hates iniquity.  Let us joyfully leave our concerns in the hands of Him
who raiseth up and pulleth down the empires and kingdoms of the world as He
pleases."
John Hancock, American Patriot and Revolutionary




"Posterity, you will never know what it has cost my generation to preserve
your freedom.  I hope you will make good use of it."
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Sixth President of the United States.




"In circumstances dark as these, it becomes us as men and Christians to
reflect.  All confidence must be withheld from the means we use and respond
only on that God who rules in the armies of Heaven and without whose
blessing the best of human councils are but foolishness and all created
power vanity and that America may soon behold a gracious interposition of
Heaven."
John Hancock, April 15, 1775, just four days before the "shot heard round
the world".




"My God, how little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are
in possession of and which no other people on earth have ever enjoyed."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States.  Author
of the Declaration of Independence.




"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor,
all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully
fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.  Let us therefore rely
upon the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being, in whose
hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions."
George Washington





"I am nothing.  Truth is everything."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of the United States.




"If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be
enslav'd. This will be their great Security."
Samuel Adams "The Father of the American Revolution"




"Our unalterable resolution would be to be free.  They have attempted to
subdue us by force, but God be praised!, in vain.  Their arts may be more
dangerous than their arms.  Let us then ... under God trust our cause to our
swords."
Samuel Adams "The Father of the American Revolution"




"What is liberty without...virtue?  It is...madness, without restraint."
Edmund Burke




"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it
steadily."
George Washington




"Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame
with righteousness did I understand the greatness and the genius of America
. . . America is good.  And if America ever ceases to be good, America will
cease to be great."
Alexis de Tocqueville




"If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants."
William Penn




"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form
the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.  All the miseries and
evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression,
slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts
contained in the Bible."
Noah Webster 1758-1843




"Say nothing of my religion.  It is known to God and myself alone.  Its
evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest
and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad
one."
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)




"Doctor, I wish you to observe how real and beneficial the religion of
Christ is to a man about to die.  This is all the inheritance I can give to
my dear family.  The religion of Christ can give them one which can make
them rich indeed."
Patrick Henry (1799, on his death bed)




"To commit our children to the care of irreligious people is to commit lambs
to the superintendency of wolves."
Timothy Dwight, President of Yale from 1795-1817




"The Bible is the book upon which this Republic rests."
Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States




"My custom is, to read four or five chapters [of the Bible] every morning
immediately after rising from my bed.  It employs about an hour of my time.
It is essential, my son, in order that you may go through life with comfort
to yourself, and usefulness to your fellow-creatures, that you should form
and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own
conduct and temper."
President John Adams in a letter to his son John Quincy Adams




"And now, Almighty Father, if it is Thy holy will that we shall obtain a
place and name among the nations of the earth, grant that we may be enabled
to show our gratitude for Thy goodness by our endeavors to fear and obey
Thee.  Bless us with Thy wisdom in our counsels, success in battle, and let
all our victories be tempered with humanity.  Endow, also, our enemies with
enlightened minds, that they become sensible of their injustice, and willing
to restore our liberty and peace. Grant the petition of Thy servant, for the
sake of Him whom Thou hast called Thy beloved Son; nevertheless, not my
will, but Thine be done."
General George Washington 1779




"O most Glorious God, in Jesus Christ my merciful and loving Father, I
acknowledge and confess my guilt, in the weak and imperfect performance of
the duties of this day.  I have called on Thee for pardon and forgiveness of
sins...  Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day
prescribed in Thy holy word; make me to know what is acceptable in Thy
sight."
President George Washington (From a booklet of prayers he wrote.)




"Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us.  Our
defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in
all lands everywhere.  Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of
despotism at your own doors.  Familiarize yourselves with the chains of
bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.  Accustomed to trample
on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence
and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among
you."
Abraham Lincoln 1858




"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738




"At what point should we expect the approach of danger?  By what means are
we to fortify against it?  Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military
power to step across the ocean and crush us?  Never.  At what point then is
the approach of danger to be expected?  I answer, if it ever reach us, it
cannot and it will not come from abroad.  If danger ever reach us, it must
spring up from amongst us.  If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be
its author and finisher.  As a nation of free men, we will live through all
time or die by suicide."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) From an 1838 speech when he was just 29 years
old.




"It's the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God,
to obey His will, to be grateful for his benefits and to humbly implore his
protection and his favor."
George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the United States.




"We need God to be our friend and our ally.  We need to keep God's
concurring aid.  If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice,
is it probable an empire can rise without His aid?  We've been assured in
the sacred writings that 'except the Lord keep the city, they labor in vain
that build it.'"
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American printer, author, philosopher,
diplomat and scientist.  This quote was said on the floor of the
Constitutional Convention June 28, 1787




"He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity,
will change the face of the world."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)




"There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who
will raise up friends to fight our battles for us."
Patrick Henry in a 1787 speech




"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and
prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and
you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from
society."
Benjamin Franklin




"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: That it connected in
one dissoluble bond the principles of Christianity with the principles of
civil government."
John Adams (1735-1826) Second President of the United States.




"And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of Order, the
Fountain of Justice, and the Protector in all ages of the world of virtuous
liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its Government and give
it all possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His
providence."
John Adams (1735-1826) Second President of the United States.




"In these my confidence will under every difficulty be best placed, next to
that which we have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and
guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of
nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising
Republic, and to whom we are bound to address our devout gratitude for the
past, as well as our fervent supplications and best hopes for the future."
James Madison (1751-1836) Fourth President of the United States.





"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that
belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)




"If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten
life."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)




"God, who gave us life, gave us liberty.  Can the liberties of a nation be
secure when we remove from them a conviction these liberties are a gift of
God?  Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and
His justice cannot sleep forever."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)




"The precepts of philosophy laid hold to actions only, but Jesus pushed His
scrutinies into the heart of man, erected the tribunal in the region of his
thoughts and purified the waters at the fountainhead."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)




"Providence punishes national sins with national calamities."
George Mason (1725-1792) The Father of the Bill of Rights




"Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of
industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are
the strongest claims to national and individual happiness."
George Washington




"The Americans, combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so
intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the
one without the other."
Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America (1835)




"[Religion] is more needed in democratic republics than in any others.  How
is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie be
not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed?  And what
can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submission
to the Divinity?"
Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America (1835)




"We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power
of government.  Far from it.  We have staked the future of all our political
institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves
according to the Ten Commandments of God."
James Madison (1751-1836) Fourth President of the United States.




"Providence has given to us the choice of our rulers, and it is the duty as
well as the interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians
for their rulers."
John Jay (1745-1829) First Supreme Court Chief Justice




"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)




"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation
was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on
the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American Orator and Statesman




"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion.  Our Constitution was made only
for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government
of any other."
John Adams (1735-1826) Second President of the United States.




"Why is it next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous
and most venerated festival returns on this day, the Fourth Of July?  It is
because the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact
on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission on earth and laid the
cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)  From a speech on July 4th 1837.




"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have
been preserved these many years in peace and in prosperity.  We have grown
in numbers and wealth and in power as no other nation ever has, but we have
forgotten God.  We have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of
redeeming and preserving grace, and too proud to pray."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)




"It is the duty of all nations as well as of men to own their dependence on
the overruling power of God and to recognize the sublime truth announced in
the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are
blessed whose god is the Lord."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)




"It would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my
fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe,
who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can
supply every human defect...No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore
the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the
United States."
George Washington (1732-1799)




"[T]rue religion affords to government its surest support."
George Washington (1732-1799)




"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can
prevail in the exclusion of religious principle."
George Washington (1732-1799)




"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,
religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man
claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great
pillars of human happiness."
George Washington (1732-1799)




"[W]e ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious [favorable] smiles
of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal
rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."
George Washington (1732-1799)




"Remember, democracy never lasts long.  It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders itself.  There never was a democracy yet that did not commit
suicide."
John Adams (1735-1826) Second President of the United States.




"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were.the
general principles of Christianity.I will avow that I then believed, and now
believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and
immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles
of liberty are as unalterable as human nature."
John Adams (1735-1826) Second President of the United States.




"[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon
which freedom can securely stand. Religion and virtue are the only
foundations...of republicanism and of all free governments."
John Adams (1735-1826) Second President of the United States.




"The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He
[God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that
they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain.  We all agree in
the obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus and nowhere will they be found
delivered in greater purity than in his discourses."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)




"A nation that expects to be ignorant -and free-.it expects what never was
and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)




"The belief in a God all Powerful, wise and good, is so essential to the
moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which
enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources."
James Madison (1751-1836) Fourth President of the United States.




"No people ought to feel greater obligations to celebrate the goodness of
the Great Disposer of events and the Destiny of Nations than the people of
the United States.And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect
gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as
well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land."
James Madison (1751-1836) Fourth President of the United States.




"And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend?  Or do we imagine that we
no longer need His assistance?...[W]ithout His concurring aid...we ourselves
shall become a reproach and a byword down to future ages."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American printer, author, philosopher,
diplomat and scientist.




"[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom.  As nations become corrupt
and vicious, they have more need of masters."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American printer, author, philosopher,
diplomat and scientist.




"Three points of doctrine, the belief of which forms the foundation of all
morality.  The first is the existence of a God; the second is the
immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards
and punishments.  Suppose it is possible for a man to disbelieve either of
these articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have
no other law than that of the tiger or the shark; the laws of man may bind
him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise,
virtuous, or happy."
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)




"The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor so to
live as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and
liberties of his country."
George Washington July 9, 1776




"[T]he law.dictated by God himself is, of course, superior in obligation to
any other.  It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all
times.  No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this."
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)




"I conjure you, by all that is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that
is sacred, not only that ye pray but that ye act."
John Hancock (1737-1793) First signer of the Declaration of Independence.




"You do well to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion
of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you
are. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise
intention."
George Washington from his speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs on May 12,
1779.




"The great pillars of all government and of social life .[are] virtue,
morality, and religion.  This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that
renders us invincible."
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American Orator and Statesman




"Has it [government] any solid foundation? Any chief cornerstone...?  I
think it is an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God, the
author of Nature whose laws never vary...Government...is by no means an
arbitrary thing depending merely on compact or human will for its
existence...  The power of God Almighty is the only power that can properly
and strictly be called supreme and absolute.  In the order of nature
immediately under him comes the power of a simple democracy, or the power of
the whole over the world...[God is] the only Monarch in the universe who has
a clear and undisputable right to absolute power because He is the only one
who is omniscient as well as omnipotent... The sum of my argument is of God,
that the administrators of it were originally the whole people."
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) The Father of the American Revolution




"I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the states
over which you preside, in His holy protection.that He would most graciously
be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean
ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were
the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an
humble imitation of whose example, we can never hope to be a happy nation."
George Washington in his last official address to Congress