Q. If the Stamp Act should be repealed, would it induce the assemblies of America to acknowledge the right of Parliament to tax them, and would they erase their resolutions [against the Stamp Act]?
A. No, never.
Q. Is there no means of obliging them to erase those resolutions?
A. None that I know of; they will never do it, unless compelled by force of arms.
Q. Is there a power on earth that can force them to erase them?
A. No power, how great soever, can force men to change their opinions. . . .
Q. What used to be the pride of the Americans?
A. To indulge in the fashions and manufactures of Great Britain.
Q. What is now their pride?
A. To wear their old clothes over again, till they can make new ones.
If Obama wanted to merely ban guns, he would do it in stages, so we get used to the restrictions, as in boiling the frog. I think he wants that civil war so he can make himself a dictator.
37 posted on 01/05/2013 6:19:21 PM PST by Daveinyork
(."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)