• “The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the apparent objects and intent of the Constitution.” ~Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
  

• “A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.” ~Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
  

• “Another not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse, and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.” ~Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
  

• In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them." ~Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
  

• “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.” ~Joseph Story
  

• “The plain import of the clause is, that congress shall have all the incidental and instrumental powers, necessary and proper to carry into execution all the express powers. It neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to congress. But it is merely a declaration for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those, otherwise granted, are included in the grant.” ~Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
  

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” ~Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

• The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium, the safeguard, of liberties of a Republic since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers. ~Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries of The Constitution

• The Foundation of everything is that the people will form an equal representative government, that the people will be universally armed. A people that legislate for themeselves ought to be in the habit of protecting themselves ~Patrick Henry

• The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, forms a barrier against the enterprise of ambition. Kingdoms of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms ~James Madison
  

Regarding Bearing Arms

• To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them” ~George Mason

• The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more Guarantee against arbitrary Government, on more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved always to be possible” ~Herbert Hoover

• The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the Palladium, the safeguard, of liberties of a Republic since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers” ~Joseph Story

• The Second Ammendment was meant to be a strong moral check against the usurpation of arbitrary power of rulers. The people shall have the right to keep and bear arms and they need no persmission or regulation of law for the purpose” ~Thomas M. Cooley [Hence gun registration and "right-to-carry" laws violate that right]

• Congress by the power of taxation, by that of raising an army, has the sword in one hand and the purse in the other. Let him candidly tell me when and where did freedom exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people. Unless America and human affairs interpose, no nation ever retained its liberty after loss of the sword and the purse. The great object is that every man be armed, everyone who is able may have a gun” ~Patrick Henry

• The foundation of everything is that the people will form an equal representative Government, that the people will be universally armed. A people that legislate for themselves ought to be in the habit of protecting themselves” ~Joel Barlow

• The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, forms a barrier against the enterprise of ambition. Kingdoms of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms” ~James Madison

• Classical Republican Philosophy has long recognized the critical relationship between personal liberty and the possession of arms by the people ready and willing to use them” ~Jefferson R. Snider

• There exists a law inborn in our hearts that if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right” ~Marcus T. Cicero

• Animals have just one method of defense and cannot change it for another. For man, on the other hand, has many means of defense that are available and he can change them at anytime. Take the hand. The hand is as good as a talon, or a claw, or a horn, or again a spear, or a sword, or any other weapon or tool, that it could be all of these ” ~Aristotle

• Among evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptable. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will willingly obey one who is unarmed” ~ Niccolo Machiavellie

• False is the idea that would take fire from men because it burns and water because one may drown in it. The law that forbids the carrying of arms are the laws of such in nature. They disarm those only who are neither inclined nor determined to commit the crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity will respect less important and arbitrary ones which can be violated with ease and impunity? Such laws serve rather to encourage rather than prevent homicides. For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man” ~Cesare Beccaria

• The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defense. The supposed quietude of a good man allures the roughian . . . while on the other hand, arms like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order” ~Thomas Paine

• It is unreasonable to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life” ~Montesquieu

• Men and women alike assiduously exercise themselves in military training to protect their own territory, or drive an invading enemy out of their friends land, or in pity for people oppressed by tyranny to deliver them by force of arms from the yoke of slavery and the tyrant” ~Sir Thomas Moore

• Formerly under the reign of Servious Tullius VI. the right to bear arms had belonged solely to the Patricians [the "royalty," those in control]. Now Plebeians [the common-man] are given a place in the army. All the citizens capable of bearing arms were required to provide their own swords and spears and other armor” ~Livy

• Those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the Constitution is to continue or not” ~Aristotle

Now why is this a big deal? Well, this is one of the ingredients our founding fathers saw as a way to limit concentrated power going back to a dictator. Within the last 100 years more people have been killed by their own Government than on the battle fields. Hillary Clinton is working on a small arms treaty with the United Nations, the goal is to have the whole world disarm, and for the UN treaty to override any U.S. laws. Which we can see as being a backdoor way to disarm America. I encourage you to read, “Change to Chains,” by William Federer.

On Marriage

• “Marriage is … in its origin a contract of natural law… It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.” –Justice Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws)