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• The Law regards man as man and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
  -- Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) -- [Sole dissent, Plessy v....
• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazard
  and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. -- Samuel Adam...
• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
  Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net....
• The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic
  ince it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rule...
• Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arm
  but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom....
• The price of justice is freedom. -- Judge Dredd
• The chief aim of their constitution and government is tha
  whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind....
• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms.
  [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible....
• Justice is lame as well as blind among us. -- Otway