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• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
  -- James Madiso...
• 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_....
• The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*
  and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage....
• Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from being a private citizen because he was armed
  his successors, since they avoided the inconveniences of arms, became private citizens after having been dukes....
• Governments that don't trust most people with weapons, deserve no trust.
• Many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them.
  The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct....
• David Letterman's "Things we can be proud of as America
• Announcing the NEW VAX 11/782!! Be the envy of other major Communist Governments!
  Defend yourself against the entire ICBM force of the imperialist USA with just one of the processors, at the same time you're designing missile IC's, cracking secret NATO codes and editing propaganda for your own people all at the same time with the other!...