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• 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 During Mass' Constitution ratification Convention, 1788...
• 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...
• 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.
  -- U.S. Constitution, Amendment 10. (Bill of Rights)...
• There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.
  -- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United State...
• The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church
  and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests....
• The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
• 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.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 10, 1791...
• That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience
  or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms....
• It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgement, and conscience.
  -- John Adam...