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"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government" - [[Thomas Jefferson]]
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." - [[Alexander Hamilton]]
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - [[Mahatma Gandhi]]
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - [[Benjamin Franklin]], 1759.
"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms." Joseph Story, 1840
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." - [[Abraham Lincoln]], 1861
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent... The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." - Supreme Court Justice [[Louis Brandeis]]
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." - [[Alexander Hamilton]]
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - [[Mahatma Gandhi]]
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - [[Benjamin Franklin]], 1759.
"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms." Joseph Story, 1840
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." - [[Abraham Lincoln]], 1861
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent... The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." - Supreme Court Justice [[Louis Brandeis]]