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Swords and plowshares

Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.

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Author Greg RavenPosted on January 17, 2010November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories Second AmendmentTags Thomas Jefferson

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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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