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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]]
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"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms within his own lands or tenements."<ref>Jefferson did NOT say: "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" --that quote is a fake.</ref>- [[Thomas Jefferson]]
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"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]]
 
"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]]
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"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]]
 
"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]]
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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. - [[Karl Marx]]
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==References==
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
 
* [[Gun control]]
 
* [[Gun control]]
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* [[Essay:Conservative quotes on American patriotism, preparedness, firearms and religion]]
 
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
 
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
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