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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

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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...more

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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or s...more

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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 a...more

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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of governm...more

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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.

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

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In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control th...more

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establi...more

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A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire...