"Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers." -Jeffrey R. Snyder American attorney, author Source: A Nation of Cowards, 113 Public Interest (Fall 1993) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeffrey.Snyder.Quote.3449
"As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people... The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that government governs only with the consent of the people." -Jeffrey R. Snyder American attorney, author Source: A Nation of Cowards, 113 Public Interest (Fall 1993)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeffrey.Snyder.Quote.F47B
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