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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 best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
  -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188...
• The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
  -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Pape...
• 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_....
• It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood
  if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow....
• 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....