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Second Ammendment Quotes   :  Let's remember what was meant
      By: David K. Every

earls of wisdom from those wiser than ourselves; politicians, philosophers, statesman, lawyers, judges and our founding fathers.
Letters From the Federal Farmer, 1788
A militia 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 people always possess arms.
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First Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights, 1788
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...
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The Federalist Papers
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.
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A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787-88
Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion...in private self-defense.
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Massachusetts U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
The Constitution of the United States shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, Aug. 20, 1789
And that said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress...to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms...
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Militia
..It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control...The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no Danger of their making use of their power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.
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Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution.
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
    By: Tench Coxe
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Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788
Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
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Supreme Court Judge
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
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NY Historical Society, October 7, 1789
The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
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Gandhi, An Autobiography
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.
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The Federalist Papers
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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3 Elliot, Debates at 386
The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
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Proposed Virginia Constitution, P76
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.
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Quoting Crimes and Punishment, 1764
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
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Letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise that control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.
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Letter to William S. Smith, 1787
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.
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Virginia's ratification convention, 1788
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people... To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
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3 Elliot, Debates at 425
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.
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Speech, 1788
I...A well-regulated Milita, composed of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and other Freemen was necessary to protect our ancient laws and liberty from the standing army... And we do each of us, for ourselves respectively, promise and engage to keep a good Fire-lock in proper Order & to furnish Ourselves as soon as possible with, and always keep by us, one Pound of Gunpowder, four Pounds of Lead, one Dozen Gun Flints, and a pair of Bullet Molds, with a Cartouche Box, or powder horn, and Bag for Balls.
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Discouragment
The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half deprived the use of them.
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Weak and prey
The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandonded while they neglect the means of self-defense....Weakness allures the ruffian, but arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world.... Horrid mischief would ensue were the good deprived of the use of them.... and the weak will become a prey to the strong.
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All that is good
Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and the keystone under independence... The rifle and pistol are equally indispensable... The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.
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