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“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
Patrick Henry quotes (American Lawyer, patriot, and orator, symbol of the American struggle for liberty, 1736-1799)
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“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other”
Alexis de Tocqueville quotes (French Historian and Political scientist. 1805-1859)
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