“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
