Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
The [National Rifle] Association fills an important role in our national defense effort, and fosters in an active and meaningful fashion the spirit of the Minutemen.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Today we need a nation of Minutemen—citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose…[and] are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents an efficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril.
We will neither commit nor provoke aggression. We shall neither flee nor invoke the threat of force. We shall never negotiate out of fear, [and] we shall never fear to negotiate.
