Thomas Jefferson
"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
Ronald Reagan
"The Constitution does not say that government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
John F. Kennedy
"By calling attention to a 'well regulated militia,' the 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our Founding Fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... the [Second] Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationship, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important."
Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. ISAIAH 1:16-17
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ROMANS 8:31
We are righteous and our cause is greater. When we fall the world goes with us. The time is coming where everyone must choose who they will serve and what they are willing to die for. Be patient, pray and your path forward will become clearer. In the meantime get ready for a wild ride. 😁
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
- "The American Crisis", Thomas Paine, December 1776.