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    Jefferson told us that "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." In 2002, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case of Silveira v. Lockyer. Full Article at The Federal Observer
    The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
    Thomas Jefferson – Thomas Jefferson SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
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  1. With respect to the two words ’general welfare,‘ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its c...
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  2. I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful.
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  3. 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.
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  4. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one …
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  5. But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can n...
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  6. I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  7. The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best w...
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  8. Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  9. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago
  10. The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
    SOURCE: The Federal Observer 1 month ago

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