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“You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
~ Rush Limbaugh

But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
~ Plato, The Republic Book 1, 347-C

When a creditor declines collection of a debt, that is loan forgiveness.
Taking money by force to pay back someone else’s debt isn’t loan forgiveness, its theft!

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition,
it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures,
until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
~ Harry S. Truman

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

The breach at the U.S. Capitol was planned, executed and is being used to strip away
free speech and the rights of Americans to peaceably assembly and protest.

“To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question:
Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?”
~ Kevin Alfred Strom

We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.
~ Vladimir Putin

“The notion that there was a single incompetent decision made to abandon Afghanistan defies both logic and common sense. It was a matter of high government policy that the United States depart Afghanistan, abandon military equipment, and leave both Americans and our allies to the tender mercies of the radical Islamic Taliban.”
~ Brian Kennedy

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
~ Augustine of Hippo

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
~ President John Adams

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
~ David Bailey