ACRU Quote Library

Dissolution of Principles...

Dissolution of Principles…

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

Samuel Adams
Trusting the people with arms...

Trusting the people with arms…

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Madison
Liberty's teeth...

Liberty’s teeth…

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.

George Washington

To be free…

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

Margaret Thatcher

Entrusting the Government…

I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley
All power is from the people...

All power is from the people…

The constitution of the United States asserts that all power is inherent in the people, that they may exercise it by themselves, that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed!

Thomas Jefferson
Photo of ACRU Executive Director LTC Allen West (Ret)

Taking the oath to defend the Constitution…

We must all take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of these United States of America, our fundamental rule of law that sees not color… but enables our rights, freedoms, and liberty.

Allen West, Executive Director, American Constitutional Rights Union

Compassion is not offering government assistance…

Compassion is defined not by how many people are on the government dole but by how many people no longer need government assistance.

Rush Limbaugh
Triumph of evil...

Triumph of evil…

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke
Personal accountability...

Personal accountability…

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Ronald Reagan
Carry permits are unconstitutional

Carry permits are unconstitutional

The requirement by states for law-abiding citizens to obtain a carry permit is unconstitutional by nature. What part of “the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” do legislators not understand? Strict recognition of natural individual rights, like the right to life and self-defense, is what makes freedom in these United States unique.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Lori Roman

Private business “rights”…

Do private businesses have the right to conduct their operations as they see fit? In most cases the answer is yes. Unless they are in breach of contracts or unless that private business is really acting as the pseudo arm of the government to trample on the rights of Americans.

The rise of corporatism, or economic totalitarianism, should cause conservatives to rethink their knee-jerk defense of corporations. Whether we lose our liberties because of government actions or corporate actions they may still disappear forever. It is time to fight back.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Defense of liberty and the pursuit of justice...

Defense of liberty and the pursuit of justice…

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

The threat of domestic tyranny…

America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.

 

Ron Paul
Citizenship standards are important for black Americans...

Citizenship standards are important for black Americans…

We cannot let citizenship cease to mean anything. black Americans have fought too hard for citizenship and the right to vote to see it diminished.

Ken Blackwell, Policy Board, American Constitutional Rights Union
Judged by character...

Judged by character…

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King
Tom McHale

Permitless carry of firearms…

By definition, the law-abiding citizens are the only people honoring the absence of permitless-carry laws and leaving their guns at home. Guess what? Law-abiding citizens are not the problem. Criminals carry regardless of the law.
Tom McHale, Director of Public Policy
Lori Roman

Defending your own in Leftist Land…

In Leftist Land, regular law-abiding citizens are left defenseless. Police are defunded, disarmed, and deterred. Elites have armed private security details. And criminals are free to terrorize over and over.

This is the antithesis of what should happen in our constitutional republic. In such times, we must hold on dearly to our Constitution, which gives Americans the right to protect themselves and which establishes a system for law and order on which they can depend.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Voting machines should be made in America...

Voting machines should be made in America…

Taking a pro-active step to ensure that our voting machines are Made in America, is a great step to restore people’s confidence and trust in our election system. By increasing transparency and accountability, these machines would help to alleviate doubts and promote trust in the democratic process.

Allen West, Executive Director, American Constitutional Rights Union

Slippery slope of socialism…

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.

Norman Thomas, American Socialist
So... Parents are incapable of raising children?

So… Parents are incapable of raising children?

The left takes a disdainful look at parents and sees them as incapable of doing their jobs. They believe a chosen few who meet the ideological purity test should be in charge of directing every aspect of our lives, including managing what our children learn, eat and do with their bodies.

Kweku Boafo, Director of Strategic Outreach
The patriot's duty...

The patriot’s duty…

It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.

Thomas Paine
Government spending and debt...

Government spending and debt…

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

Ronald Reagan
Tom McHale

Law-abiding citizens have to obey unconstitutional and ill-conceived gun laws…

Law-abiding citizens face each day at a distinct disadvantage because they do obey unconstitutional and ill-conceived gun laws. Criminals know this and act accordingly.
Tom McHale, Director of Public Policy
Context of the Constitution...

Context of the Constitution…

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

James Madison

What are citizens willing to fight for?

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill
Wisdom of the Marketplace...

Wisdom of the Marketplace…

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

Ronald Reagan
Teaching a man to fish...

Teaching a man to fish…

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course, became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Ben Franklin
Tom McHale

Law-abiding citizens aren’t the ones committing crimes…

Will law-abiding gun owners suddenly start committing violent crimes because they don’t need a government permit to carry a gun for self-defense? We need to stop believing that criminals make decisions based on what the law says.
Tom McHale, Director of Public Policy
Diluting the hard-earned right to vote...

Diluting the hard-earned right to vote…

Expanding the right to vote to foreigners not only diminishes the work of black Americans to have their vote counted, but it also gives the right to vote to people who have no stake in the future of our country. Part of being a citizen is caring about leaving the country better off for the next generation. Foreigners living in America do not have the same shared interest in that investment.

Ken Blackwell, Policy Board, American Constitutional Rights Union
Hostility against tyranny...

Hostility against tyranny…

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson
The right to keep and bear arms...

The right to keep and bear arms…

The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Samuel Adams

Bribing the people with government money…

The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Voting machines...

Voting machines…

The integrity of our electoral process is vital to maintaining the foundations of democracy. Reliable and secure voting machines play a crucial role in the faith, trust, and confidence of our elections.

Ken Blackwell, Policy Board, American Constitutional Rights Union
Real parenthood

Real parenthood

Parenthood is more than the ability to bring children into this world. Indeed, it is the ability of an adult to take joy in the responsibilities that come with educating, rearing, and taking care of one’s children.

Kweku Boafo, Director of Strategic Outreach
Illegal immigration skews congressional representation...

Illegal immigration skews congressional representation…

One of the drawbacks of apportionment today is the large number of aliens in the country, particularly illegal aliens, who distort the representation that states have in the House because the Census Bureau includes them in the population count used to determine how many representatives each state should have. The growing alien population is unfairly and unjustly altering the political representation of the states in the House of Representatives, cheating citizens and devaluing their votes in favor of aliens who have no right to participate in governing this country.

Hans von Spakovsky, Policy Board, American Constitutional Rights Union
Lori Roman

Vulnerable voter fraud evidence mounts…

The evidence of real and tangible voter fraud against vulnerable senior voters is growing.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Lori Roman

Show Me The Man and I’ll Show You the Crime…

“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” is a quote attributed to a ruthless secret police chief who eliminated the enemies of Joseph Stalin.  The gulags filled up as he identified his targets and trumped-up crimes.

In an eerie twist of political strategies, American leftists are now using this method to go after Trump and many of his supporters. This is an affront to our entire judicial system and a threat to our constitutional republic. Our nation is in peril.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Taxes optional...

Taxes optional…

If you are not a citizen and don’t pay taxes at all, you can come in anytime — stroll across the border — and you are allowed to stay, and receive welfare, education and health services. If you are a citizen and pay taxes, but are behind on paying them, the IRS can stop you from leaving the country.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Lori Roman

In person voting…

If we can go to the grocery store, we can vote in person.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Now they want to steal our children...

Now they want to steal our children…

We are now living in a world where liberal elites are no longer content with shaming adults who choose to have children. They are no longer content with indoctrinating our children. They now want to steal our children from us; especially if we don’t think like them or agree with them. The result is predictable: irreparable harm to children.

Kweku Boafo, Director of Strategic Outreach
Lessons from the past...

Lessons from the past…

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”

George Washington
Permitless carry is constitutional

Permitless carry is constitutional

We applaud legislators and the executive branches of states where our representatives fight to preserve and maintain constitutional rights like permitless carry. After all, the fundamental purpose of government in our Constitutional Republic is to protect the natural rights of its citizens. Among these enumerated rights are the right to keep and bear arms.
Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union

Subsidizing poverty…

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
Gun rights are the great equalizer...

Gun rights are the great equalizer…

Second Amendment rights are women’s rights. Guns are the great equalizer in self-defense.
Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Lori Roman

Vote fraud is real… and documented…

While many insist that election fraud is non-existent, ACRU and ACRU Action have been tracking and fighting election fraud for many years. ACRU has sued counties that refuse to clean up their voter rolls and ACRU sued Broward County, Florida in 2016 after they refused to remove any deceased or relocated citizens for two solid years. ACRU is known for its Election Integrity Bulletin that is sent regularly to legislators, legislative staff, and election officials.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
The government is here to help...

The government is here to help…

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Ronald Reagan
Trust the science on voter ID laws...

Trust the science on voter ID laws…

Trust the science, we’ve all been told. Well, the science has spoken again: Voter ID laws aren’t discriminatory and don’t suppress anyone’s vote. Voter security benefits both parties and all Americans.

Hans von Spakovsky, Policy Board, American Constitutional Rights Union

Patriotism is a virtue…

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Benjamin Rush
Freedom of speech...

Freedom of speech…

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington
Capitalism and government intervention...

Capitalism and government intervention…

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital… if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

William Henry Harrison
Viewpoint censorship...

Viewpoint censorship…

Viewpoint censorship threatens to destroy the country as it was intended to be—a beacon of freedom of speech, religion, and assembly. The First Amendment protects citizens from the government controlling speech, and the principle of free speech permeates our founding principles.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union

Valuing anything more than freedom…

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Somerset Maugham
Lori Roman

The Dangers of Corporatism…

For too long, conservatives have blindly supported corporations. While trying to support “free markets” we might inadvertently be supporting corporatism, a form of economic totalitarianism where government and corporations collude to destroy individual rights.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Preserving liberty...

Preserving liberty…

And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time?

Thomas Jefferson
When corporations can violate the First Amendment...

When corporations can violate the First Amendment…

Corporations may think they are free to censor speech because the First Amendment was written to constrain government, but when they conspire and collude with the government to censor, they have crossed the line and leave themselves open to litigation that could destroy their companies.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Give me liberty!

Give me liberty!

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!

Patrick Henry
Dependence on government...

Dependence on government…

There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism — government.

Ronald Reagan
George Washington

George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington
Small government...

Small government…

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson
Marketplace allocation of resources...

Marketplace allocation of resources…

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

Ronald Reagan
Big government threats...

Big government threats…

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Barry Goldwater
Taking away from those who work...

Taking away from those who work…

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson
Democratic process cheapened...

Democratic process cheapened…

Maintaining electoral continuity is important to protecting voting integrity. If the rules of the game change at the last minute — especially in a way that even seems to benefit one political party over its opposition — democracy itself is cheapened and delegitimized.

Ken Blackwell, Policy Board, American Constitutional Rights Union
The well-armed lamb...

The well-armed lamb…

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote

Ben Franklin
Pretended patriotism...

Pretended patriotism…

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

George Washington
Constitution Day

Constitution Day

On Constitution Day we are thankful for the wisdom and sacrifices of our forefathers who ensured that Americans would be citizens and not subjects. Let us constantly remind our representatives that individual liberty is the cornerstone of this great country and we will not stop fighting to preserve it.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
Lori Roman

The dangers of corporate and government collusion…

It is bad enough when companies lobby to get public policy favors from politicians to crush their rivals, but when the private sector colludes with the government to limit the freedoms of individual Americans it is time to fight back with every legal method we can find.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union
As government expands, liberty contracts...

As government expands, liberty contracts…

I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan
Freedom and the Constitution...

Freedom and the Constitution…

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence.

George Washington
Parents are obstacles in the way of the liberal elite agenda...

Parents are obstacles in the way of the liberal elite agenda…

Liberal elites around the world are marching to the same drumbeat of intentionally attacking our parental rights. They understand all that stands in the way of getting to children is their parents. They must do everything in their power to undermine and remove the only obstacle in the way of achieving their goals. They believe that the children belong to those in power.

Kweku Boafo, Director of Strategic Outreach

Government: A Necessary Evil…

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine
Lori Roman

Protection for me but not for thee…

The liberal rule seems to be “Guns for me, but not for thee.” Milwaukee City Council members who voted to defund police, quickly got private security for themselves.

Lori Roman, CEO, American Constitutional Rights Union

Socialism: Sharing of Miseries…

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill
The Constitution...

The Constitution…

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

George Washington

Liberalism…

A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn’t own.

Unknown

State corruption and legislation…

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.

Tacitus

Unequal distribution of capitalism is the problem…

The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.

Rush Limbaugh
Dr. Alveda King

The right to vote, for everyone…

[My uncle] fought to ensure that every single American had the right to vote freely [but] many of those voters are nursing home residents who are often targeted by those who
would steal or suppress their votes.

Dr. Alveda King