"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

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"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

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"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."

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"There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave."

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"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

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"Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another, and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess."

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