Lawrence Hunter quotes

“A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.”
-- Lawrence Hunter

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“Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.”
-- Lawrence Hunter

Source : "Gun Control Tramples On The Certain Virtues Of A Heavily Armed Citizenry". www.forbes.com. December 28, 2012.

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“The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.”

“It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”

“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.”

“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”

“Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.”

“We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.”