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• To disarm the people - that was the best and most effective way to enslave them .
  ... -- George Mason ( Framer of the Declaration of Rights, Virginia, 1776, -- which became the basis for the U....
• The great object is, that every man be armed. [...] Every one who is able may have a gun.
  -- Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788...
• To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
  -- George Washington (1732-1799) -- Speech to both Houses of Congress, Jan. 8, 1790...
• To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
  -- George Washington (1732-1799)...
• Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence?
  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?...
• The best way to get and keep good people is to give them room to grow.
• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force....
• I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.
  -- George Maso...
• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....