Justice

"Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us."

"Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing  because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.”

"The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes."

"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed."

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...  

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?

And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

"No free man shall ever be de|barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

[ This includes any U.S. government that would try to impose such an abomination as the U.S.A. Patriot Act upon the people!  C.M.M. ]

"There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government."

"An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us.  But we shall not fight our battle alone.  There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations.  The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone.  

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  

Forbid it almighty God.  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

“If you see injustice and say nothing, you have taken the side of the oppressor."