Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.Rico says before anyone votes on the recent gun laws proposed in Congress, they ought to go back and reread the Founding Fathers...
Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 10 October 1787
25 February 2009
Quote for the day
Courtesy of my friend Bill Calloway, this pertinent quote:
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