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As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only] moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
Games played with the ball and o...
Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!
' in a crowded theater." -- Peter Venetokli...
Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed.
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 powe...
Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms.
[...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always posse...
quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.
[...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand....
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience
hat would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown i...
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people.
The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave....
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 a...
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
-- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788...

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