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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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it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Cons...more

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over erro...more

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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 violen...more

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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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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.