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We Should Have Fine Times
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…
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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
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Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Edward Carrington…
Read MoreMen of Singular Wisdom and Integrity
Every citizen will see, and I hope be deeply impressed with a sense of it, how exceedingly important it is to himself, and how intimately the welfare of his children is connected with it, that those who are to have a share in making as well as in judging and executing the laws should be…
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Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. James Madison Federalist No. 10 November 23, 1787
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