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Good post! I like Micheal Brown's stuff -- he writes so well, even an anti-gunner can understand it. And like he says, that's probably what they're afraid of.

Shameless self-plug: If you liked the quotes in this article, there's a 19 page document in PDF format of the best of the best right HERE.

Awesome compilation! A must-save-and-pass-on!

"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them." - Walter Mondale

Ex-Presidential candidate Walter Mondale said that? He was (is?) pro-gun?!!!?

Here's a few from my FReeper profile page, sometimes quoted elsewhere:

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Dies Irae, Dies Illa

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

--Marcus Tulius Cicero, 106-53 BC

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Any government that would attempt to disarm its people is despotic; and any people that would submit to it deserve to be slaves!

--Stephen F. Austin, 1835

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A government that fears arms in the hands of its people should also fear the rope!

--General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA

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A society of sheep by nature, must beget a government of wolves.

-- Bertrand de Jouvenel, In Freedom

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All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.

Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)

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I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
What I can do, I should do.
And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.

-- Edward Everett Hale

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-Johann W. Von Goethe

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Governor, had I foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no, sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand.

-- General Robert E. Lee to Governor Stockdale of Texas, August 1870

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The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather to your bosom his wives and his daughters.

-- Genghis Khan, 1226

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Here are some short succinct "founding father" quotes:

"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." ~~Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." ~~Thomas Jefferson

"Americans have the right and the advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~~James Madison

"I ask you sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." ~~George Mason

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." ~~George Mason

The constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ~~Samuel Adams

They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~~Ben Branklin

"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the arguement of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves." ~~William Pitt

Here's a few I didn't see on your list...

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty's teeth." - George Washington

"When firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour. " - George Washington

"Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of self-protection, utopian lamentations notwithstanding." - Dr. Edgar A. Suter

"The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? " - P. J. O'Rourke

Will you ever forget this next one ?

"I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by [the] police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state." - Michael Dukakis