Michigan Senator: Democrats’ ‘Ghost Gun’ Ban Would Have Undercut the American Revolution… In sum, Lindsey said “our nation most likely would not exist” if guns without serial numbers had been illegal at the time of the revolution. [More]
Today’s Democrats would have been yesterday’s Tories.
[Via bondmen]
Are still.
Wherever there are men, there will be parties… Those of firm health and spirits are unwilling to cede more of their liberty than is necessary to preserve order; those of feeble constitutions will wish to see one strong arm able to protect them from the many. These are the Whigs and Tories of nature… The Tories are for strengthening the Executive and General Government; the Whigs cherish the representative branch and the rights reserved by the States as the bulwark against consolidation.
–THOMAS JEFFERSON, MISC NOTES, 1801
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety and accessibility in a strong executive; the healthy, firm, and virtuous, feeling confidence in their physical and moral resources, and willing to part with only so much power as is necessary for their good government; and, therefore, to retain the rest in the hands of the many, the division will substantially be into Whig and Tory.
–THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JOEL BARLOW, 1802.