"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any
government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of
citizens to keep and bear arms ... The right of citizens to bear
arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more
safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America
but which historically has proven to be always possible."
-- Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator, Vice President, 22 October
1959
"...the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."
-- Thomas Jefferson