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Tench Coxe

"The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia."

Source : The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788.

Tench Coxe

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“There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.”
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“The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.”
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