“When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.” LongRunningNationsCitizensSavingTroopsLong RunsVolunteer Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.” LawOrderPresidentJudgingDependsCitizensCourtTroopsEnforcementRulingAbidingPurses Author:Nina Totenberg
“There's been a systematic propagandizing of American citizens for 30 years to make us forget what America is supposed to be and what our rights are and what our system is and what our core principles are. And one of them since 1807 has been this right that the founding generation put in place, to make sure that military troops would never, ever, ever be deployed in the United States of America for civilian policing.” YearsHas BeensStatesAmericaForgetUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesRightsGenerationsMilitaryCitizensCoreSupposed To BeTroopsUnited States Of AmericaFoundingCiviliansSystematicAmerican Citizens Author:Naomi Wolf