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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep an

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. – Thomas Jefferson

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. – Thomas Jefferson

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Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped. – Alexander Hamilton

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Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. – Joseph T. Chew

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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? – Patrick Henry

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Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave. – Andrew Fletcher

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