Misc

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the…

The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun. Patrick Henry Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution June 14, 1788