Turned 62 in 10/2006. I retired as of the first of October 2006. I have an opinion on just about any subject you wish to discuss. It may not be a popular opinion, but it's definitely my own.

I am a Dixiecrat (Southern Democrat, a blue dog but not yellow dog) and I usually vote Republican in Federal races, but Democrat in local races.


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John Adams: Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
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Samuel Adams: And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.
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Richard Henry Lee: To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
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James Madison: Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
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James Monroe: Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.
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George Mason: To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
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Attributed to George Washington: Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon, and citizen's firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99 99/100 percent of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place with all that's good. When firearms go, all goes; we need them every hour.
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Patrick Henry: The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
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Thomas Jefferson: God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom.
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Gun Control is life insurance for those Government Officials scheming to steal the rest of your Bill of Rights.