The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their
possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types
of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the
collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dictator of Japan, August 1588
possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types
of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the
collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dictator of Japan, August 1588
Related:
- The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed
to their arms,
when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous... - They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into
pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither... - The possession of arms by the people is the ultimate warrant
that government governs only with the consent of the governed.
Jeff... - No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people.
The possession of arms is the distinction between a... - 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... - 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...
