Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as …

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as theyare in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in Americacannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body ofthe people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bandsof regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the UnitedStates. Noah Webster
In ‘An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution,’ 1787, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at p. 56 ( New York, 1888 ).

I could never turn against or show the least lack of loyalty …

I could never turn against or show the least lack of loyalty to my family since this is in sharp contradiction with the family values I was brought up on–the values that continue to sustain my lifeblood and determine my mental life more effectively thananything else. Indeed, the faith I have in these values deepens day after day, so much that I have come to believe that only adherence to such values can savesociety–that there can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family and not as many separate ones. Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt

The words in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution are …

The words in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution are quite clear … that racial preference is clearly unconstitutional and, notwithstanding the Constitution, racial preference is immoral and unnecessary. Groupthink, political correctness , and the like appear to also be blatant or subtle violations of the same [principles]. Richard Boddie
Bucknell University, class of 1961, self-described ‘black man’, Bucknell World, May 2003