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wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another,
which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of
industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread
it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
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.
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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.
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The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until
they try to take it.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free,
neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
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I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is
necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned
from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose
happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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The two enemies of
the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the
chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version
of the first.
~Thomas Jefferson
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