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• The great object is, that every man be armed.... Everyone who is able may have a gun.
  -- Patrick Henry...
• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force....
• 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?...
• To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
  -- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788...
• Women are great! Every man should own one!!!!!
• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
  I know no way of judging of the future but by the past....
• Behind every great man is a great computer.
• 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_....
• Cursed is every-one who places his hope in man. -- St. Augustine