The Relationship Between Liberty, Power, and Guns (video)

At the Citizens for Liberty meeting on January 16, 2013 Darren Wolfe talked about how the loss of liberty has created an unstable society.

This presentation inspired the article "Progressivism's Violent World"

http://theinternationallibertarian.blogspot.com/2013/01/progressivisms-violent-world.html

Below are some of the quotes used in the speech:

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom.... Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
                                                                                 --Tench Coxe

The honorable gentleman who presides told us that, to prevent abuses in our government, we will assemble in Convention, recall our delegated powers, and punish our servants for abusing the trust reposed in them. O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone....Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all? You read of a riot act in a country which is called one of the freest in the world, where a few neighbors cannot assemble without the risk of being shot by a hired soldiery, the engines of despotism. We may see such an act in America.

A standing army we shall have, also, to execute the execrable commands of tyranny; and how are you to punish them? Will you order them to be punished? Who shall obey these orders?

                         --Patrick Henry, "Shall Liberty or Empire be Sought?" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Henry%27s_speech_in_the_Virginia_Ratifying_Convention

When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
                                            --Thomas Jefferson

Is there any need to offer proof that this odious perversion of the law is a perpetual source of hatred and discord; that it tends to destroy society itself? If such proof is needed, look at the United States. There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of every person's liberty and property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no country in the world where the social order rests on a firmer foundation.
                                                      --Frederick Bastiat, "The Law"
                                      http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G002