“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
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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.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.