walter34payton2002
09-15-2006, 02:24 AM
I have been thinking about this lately and I believe I have the answer. I am in many gun forums and always see a lot of different quotes. It got me thinking about this topic. The answer to the question is Thomas Jefferson. He was, without doubt, the greatest president of them all.
First, he was the author of the Declaration of Independence. But more than that, he got it. He just had it all figured out. Look at some of his quotes. They all stress so emphatically the importance of bearing arms and of freedom in general. What he said still has no less validity then than it does today. He also knew the media were liars, but knew that their rights were invaluable. He focused a great deal on tyranny, sometimes forgotten today (Rebecca Peters, Sarah Brady, Michael Barnes, Bloomberg, ect). I think Jefferson understood the dynamics of humanity, government, religion, and true freedom more than any other these eyes have seen. Here are some of his quotes, among many.
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
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 the constant companion of your walks.
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements).
What is your opinion? I don't think that any other president understood it all like Jefferson. He knew what was important and was freedom's steel. Here is a link to more of Jefferson's quotes http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html.
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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; When the
government fears the people, there is liberty."- Thomas Jefferson
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." --
Mahatma Gandhi
First, he was the author of the Declaration of Independence. But more than that, he got it. He just had it all figured out. Look at some of his quotes. They all stress so emphatically the importance of bearing arms and of freedom in general. What he said still has no less validity then than it does today. He also knew the media were liars, but knew that their rights were invaluable. He focused a great deal on tyranny, sometimes forgotten today (Rebecca Peters, Sarah Brady, Michael Barnes, Bloomberg, ect). I think Jefferson understood the dynamics of humanity, government, religion, and true freedom more than any other these eyes have seen. Here are some of his quotes, among many.
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
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 the constant companion of your walks.
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements).
What is your opinion? I don't think that any other president understood it all like Jefferson. He knew what was important and was freedom's steel. Here is a link to more of Jefferson's quotes http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html.
_______________________________________________
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; When the
government fears the people, there is liberty."- Thomas Jefferson
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." --
Mahatma Gandhi