A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms..

Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essent….

If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by jury in civil causes, for ….

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people..

The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia usel….

The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary ….

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations and abuses that mig….

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power..

Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil sl….

Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how ….

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crow….

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying..