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• The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic
  ince it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rule...
• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms.
  [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible....
• The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
  The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet....
• In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militia
  while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms....
• Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have .
  ..a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the character and conduct of their rulers....
• The Second Amendment doesn't grant the right to keep and bear arms.
  You already have that right. The Constitution just prohibits the government from taking it away from you....
• 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_....
• Historical examination of the right to bear arms, from English antecedents to the drafting of the Second Amendme
  bears proof that the right to bear arms has consistently been, and should still be, construed as an individual right....
• Surely every human being ought to attain to the dignity of the unit.
  Surely it is worth while to be one, and to feel that the census of the universe would be incomplete without counting you....