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• 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. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia" referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution....
• 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_....
• By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia'
  he 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms', our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy....
• 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 possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them....
• 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...
• To preserve liberty, it is necessary that the whole body of the people possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
  -- Richard Henry Lee...
• Every free citizen is an ENEMY of the STATE. -- Kurt J. Robertso
• No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms.
  The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government....
• The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence
  which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights....