A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves…and include all men capable of bearing arms. — Richard Henry Lee The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call. — Alexander Hamilton An instance within the memory of some of this house will show us how our militia may be destroyed. Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliment was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that is was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia. — George Mason he militia is the natural defense of a free country against foreign invasions,...

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action. — Thomas Jefferson If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. — Dwight David Eisenhower We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress...

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. — Dwight David Eisenhower Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning. — General George S. Patton The Sergeant is the Army. — Dwight Eisenhower In war there is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. — Martin Luther King Jr. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. — John Adams In the long run luck is given only to the efficient. — Helmuth von Moltke The patriot...

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. — Henry Truman Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. — Mark Twain The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food. — Erasmus First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst. — Dale Carnegie I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush. — Andy Rooney Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet....

The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a ‘free lunch.’ The American people’s work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway. — Forbes, August 26, 1996 What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the ‘pain’ involved in cutting government spending – in their spending less of our money? For the average citizen, what pain is there in his keeping more of his money to invest it the way he wants? Taxes cost people. Tax cuts do not cost government. — Theodore J. Forstmann, Forbes, October 14, 1996 The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. — John Maynard Keynes There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. — Robert A. Heinlein We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt...

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent … the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Olmstead vs. United States, United States Supreme Court (1928) The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. — Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. — T.S.Elliot This country belongs to the people and whenever they shall grow weary of their government they can exercise their constitutional right to amend it, or revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. — Bertrand Russell Let them call me a rebel and I welcome it; I feel...