"The issue today is the same as..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”

“Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”

“Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.”

“The caterpillars of the commonwealth,Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.”

“The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals”

“The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.”

“Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.”

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”

“We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”