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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force....
• The great object is, that every man be armed. [...] Every one who is able may have a gun.
  -- Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788...
• Give me liberty or give me death! -- Patrick Henry (1775)
• You all know that Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death.
  But you've never been told his complete statement....
• God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, June 3, 1834, Vol. iv, p. 47...
• Give in to the FORCE...
• If you happen to one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea
  you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to...
• Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence?
  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?...
• One of these centuries the brutes, private or public, who believe that they can rule their betters by force, will learn the lesson of what happens when brute force encounters mind and force.
  -- Ragnar Danneskjold...