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• The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
  -- Samuel Adams During Mass' Constitution ratification Convention, 1788...
• The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 9, 1791...
• The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy--a policy worthy of imitation.
  All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship....
• Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate.
• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
  or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the pre...
• The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
  -- U.S. Constitution, Amendment 10. (Bill of Rights)...
• A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 2, 1791...
• The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 10, 1791...
• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
  They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...