“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
