We Must Never Forget....

"We must never forget that everything Hitler did was legal."
        --Martin Luther King Jr.

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws!"
        --Tacitus (A.D. 55-130)

"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen and not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
        --Hubert H. Humphrey

Without raising one fist in anger against an unjust and illegal law, one juror can stop governmental abuse and oppression. If this responsibility is not exercised by juries, trial by jury becomes trial by government! Jury nullification is part of our "checks and balances" system and is not a violation of the rule of law, because it is the rule of law. This is true even though it contradicts instructions from a biased and politically appointed judge and prosecutor. "The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."
        --Harlan F. Stone U.S. supreme Court, 1941

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives superficial appearance of being right."
        --Thomas Paine

"The fight is what it is, not what you expect it to be."
        --Clint Smith

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
      --Thomas Jefferson

"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
       --Samuel Adams

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master... and deserves one!"
        --Alexander Hamilton

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
        --Benjamin Franklin

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God, I know not what course others may take, but give me liberty or give me death!"
        -- Patrick Henry"

"This Constitution...shall be the supreme Law of the Land; ..Laws...to the Contrary notwithstanding... Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers...shall be bound by Oath...to support this Constitution...."
        --U.S. Constitution

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
        --9th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
        --10th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."
        --George Washington

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people."
        --John Adams

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God"
        --Thomas Jefferson

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president...."
        --Theodore Roosevelt

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
        --Barry Goldwater

"The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him..."
        --Ronald Reagan

"The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves."
        --H.L. Mencken

"Imagine! Giving tax cuts to those who actually pay taxes. There's a reason across-the-board cuts 'favor' the rich. The rich pay more in taxes. A lot more."
        - - Doug Bandow