Originally Posted by digitaldivas

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -Thomas Jefferson

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." -Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -James Madison

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. -George Washington