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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...
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
-- "M.T. Cice...
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience
or to prevent the people of the United states who are p...
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*
The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind
a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]...
Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
' -- Mao Tse-tung, 1938, inadvertently endorsing the Second Amendment....
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942...
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms.
History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arm...
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free. -- A.
E. Van Vogt, "The Weapon Shops Of Isher", ASF December 1942...

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