The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
[I’m sure Kennedy had something else in mind but I’m thinking the freedom to own firearms. The inalienable right to keep and bear arms.–Joe]
I believe Kennedy used this quote (though I cannot lay my hands on the actual citation:
“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security”.
-Thomas Jefferson