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Freedom
- Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue
out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater."
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Peter...
- Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people
against whom gun bans are aimed.
Almost without exception, murderers
are extreme aberrants...
- The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as
the palladium of the liberties of a republic;
since it offers a strong moral
check against usurpation...
- 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...
- quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
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a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's...
- False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for
one imaginary or trifling inconvenience;
that would take fire from men because
it burns, and...
- No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people.
The possession
of arms is the distinction between a...
- Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation,
that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence...
- To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
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George Mason, speech of June 14,...
- The great object is, that every man be armed. [...]
Every one who is able may have a gun."
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Patrick Henry, speech of June 14...
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