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• 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_....
• They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hook
  ation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more....
• The possession of arms by the people is the ultimate warrant that government governs only with the consent of the governed.
  -- Jeff Snyde...
• No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people.
  The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave....
• Two swords slashing at each other only sharpen one another.
• Hold! Cease thy stultiloquy! Oh, not daggers or swords or all the spears in the world stung me greater than this rubbish you throw to the heavens!
• Swords to Ploughs? Wouldn't they be small?
• And they shall plow their swords into beach chairs.
• A Los Angeles ordinance forbids a person to have a hippopotamus in his possession.