"The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally ... enable the people to resist and triumph over them."


-- Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, p. 3:746-7, 1833

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When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

-- Benjamin Franklin

"The State is great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

-- Frederic Bastiat