| | <blockquote>"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796. ME 9:341</blockquote> | | <blockquote>"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796. ME 9:341</blockquote> |
| − | <blockquote>"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson when drafting the Virginia Constitution. The text does not appear in the Virginia Constitution as adopted.<ref>Boyd, Julian P., Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, et al, eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950-. 1:344.</ref> | + | <blockquote>"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson when drafting the Virginia Constitution. The text does not appear in the Virginia Constitution as adopted.<ref>Boyd, Julian P., Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, et al, eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950-. 1:344.</ref></blockquote> |