"Every time our country stands in the path of danger, an instinct seems to summon her finest first. Those who truly understand her...when freedom shivers in the cold shadow of true peril, its always the patriots who first hear the call. When loss of liberty is looming, as it is now, the siren sounds first in the hearts of freedoms vanguard."
Charlton Heston speaking for the NRA... it was true then, it is true now.
"...From my cold dead hands."
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen"
--Samuel Adams