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(1823-1894) English jurist, historian

The right of each to carry arms

… In all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms — and these the best and the sharpest — for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 26, 2009March 25, 2021Format QuoteCategories Second AmendmentTags James Paterson

“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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