"An armed republic submits less easily to..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.”

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”

“There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.”

“Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.”

“Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.”

“Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.”

“It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.”

“I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?”

“It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.”