Second Amendment Day

“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government”

― George Washington

An American

"I am not a Virginian, but an American."

Patrick Henry

Of Necessity

"Resolved; That these colonies are, and of rightought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved of all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith totake the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation."

Richard Henry Lee; on this Day in History

Servants and Agents of the People

"Rulers are the servants and agents of the people; the people are their masters."

Patrick Henry