“The best we can hope for concerning the people
-Alexander Hamilton
at large is that they be properly armed”
“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
“When government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms, it becomes the citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern.”
-George Washington
“The Constitution is not a document for the government to restrain the people; it is a instrument for the people to restrain the government”
-Patrick Henry
“When people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
-Thomas Jefferson