“The great object is, that every man be armed. [...]
Every one who is able may have a gun.”
-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788
“The great object is, that every man be armed. [...]
Every one who is able may have a gun.”
-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788
Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation,
that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the
difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our
own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If
our defence be the *real* object of having those arms, in whose hands
can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in
our own hands?
-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 9 1788
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one
who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it
but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are
inevitably ruined.” -- Patrick Henry, speech of June 5 1788