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• 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....
• Whenever, therefore, the profession of arms becomes a distinct order in the state.
  ...the end of the social compact is defeated... No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state....
• W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• Quote #392 "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ?
  Let them take arms ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• Legislated Nostalgia: To force a body of people to have memories they do not actually posse
  How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?...
• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Letter to Colonel W. S. Smith, 1787...
• Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise.
  -- Richard Milhouse Nixo...
• Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise.
  -- Richard M. Nixo...
• In dealing with a body of people, the people will be more tacky than expected. -- Lee's Law