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• 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....
• Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
• This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1826, Last Word
• This is the Fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, last words (July 4, 1826)
• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,--Independence now and Independence forever.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826, p. 136...
• The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred , ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, 1826...
• No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. -- Thomas Jefferso
• The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism
  on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• When forced to resort to arms for redress, an appeal to the tribunal of the world was deemed proper for our justification.
  This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. -- Thomas Jefferso...