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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
  -- Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840...
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• The power to tax involves the power to destroy. -- John Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, 1819
• The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
  -- John Jay, first Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court -- Georgia vs. Brailsford, 1794:4...
• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms.
  [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible....
• Corrective historical footnote: John Marshall's promiscuous mistress was actually the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court.
• But, sir, the people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal of arms.
  An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law...
• Ms. Krabappel: I believe that with persistent discipline, even the poorest student can end up becoming, oh, say, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
  Homer: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....
• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
  -- Samuel Chase, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Supreme Court Justice, 1804...