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Are we not to be trusted?

Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?

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Author Greg RavenPosted on January 26, 2013March 25, 2021Format QuoteCategories Second AmendmentTags Patrick Henry

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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