Friday, February 12, 2021

Comment on 'A Fig for the Constitution'

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Guys Trying to Get Themselves Killed: John Randolph and Henry Clay

 A Fig for the Constitution

 

"Paper constitutions raise smiles upon the faces of those who have observed their results." 

-- Herbert Spencer

The key to the restraint of government can only be an armed, vigilant, and freedom-loving people. If the people lack sufficient arms, or are unaware of what's being done to them and its probable consequences, or are unattached to individual liberty as a sacred right and principle, they will fail to restrain the depredations of the State, whether by unwillingness or inability. That's why the totalitarians always:
1. Target the educational and communications sectors of a nation first and foremost;
2. Strive to divide the people, setting some against others;
3. Forbid the private ownership of weapons.

It could hardly be simpler...yet it appears too complex for most Americans of today.

2 comments:

  1. "Paper shreader constitutionalists raise yawns upon the faces of those who have observed their results."

    FIFY

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