David Thomas Roberts > Quotes

“There is something glorious about this place we call Texas. Hell, I don’t know, it must be in the water. Somehow, as overwhelming odds and pressures congregate over Texas like a spring storm, average men and women are transformed into icons of history.”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“I am embarrassed for America. I am sad but ticked off that Americans have let their country deteriorate to the point that the federal government can perpetrate these types of crimes and that people are more concerned over the score of Monday Night Football than the tyranny that exists,”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Texans never forget. That’s either our curse or one of our best attributes, I’m not really sure which,” replied the governor.”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.” ~ Vladimir Lenin”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.” —Ludwig Von Mises (1881–1973) Austrian Economist”
― David Thomas Roberts, The Death of Liberty: A Case for the Destruction of the IRS and Repeal of the 16th Amendment

“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” ~ Thomas Jefferson”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” ~ John Adams”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.” ~ L. Neil Smith”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes. In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal and state grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order.” —Samuel L. Blumfield (1927–2015) American Author, Educator”
― David Thomas Roberts, The Death of Liberty: A Case for the Destruction of the IRS and Repeal of the 16th Amendment

“the average American doesn’t know he’s wrong. America’s lack of constitutional knowledge works against us”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to society, to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force—and statism has always been the political corollary of collectivism.” ~ Ayn Rand (1905-1982)”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” ~ George Orwell, English Socialist and Novelist”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“If every person has the right to defend―even by force― his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly.” ~ Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
French Politician & Economist
Forefather of Libertarian Ideals
& Austrian Economics Theory of Thought”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only a unanimity at the graveyard.” ~ Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1945)
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.” ~ Joseph Stalin”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn’t matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.” ~ Sarah Brady, formerly of Handgun Control, Inc.
renamed the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“Pity the poor, wretched, timid soul, too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the songs of the damned, ‘I cannot resist, I have too much to lose, they might take my property or confiscate my earnings, what would my family do, how would they survive?’ He hides behind pretended family responsibility, failing to see that the most glorious legacy that we can bequeath to our posterity is liberty!” ~ W. Vaughn Ellsworth
American Author
IRS Protestor”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” ~ Adolf Hitler”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“He couldn’t help thinking about one of Sam Houston’s most famous quotes, and he took some comfort in the belief that Texans at the core are defiant and resolute. He recalled Houston’s famous words: “Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason

“Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” ~ Thomas Jefferson”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.” ~ The Texas Constitution (Article 1, Section 2)”
― David Thomas Roberts, Patriots of Treason

“Unbelievably, the total cost of the progressive income tax compliance in America exceeds $409 billion and exceeds the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of 162 nations.”
― David Thomas Roberts, The Death of Liberty: A Case for the Destruction of the IRS and Repeal of the 16th Amendment

“Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.” ~ Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul”
― David Thomas Roberts, A State of Treason