"The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation."

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Source : Joyce Lee Malcolm (1996). “To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, p.163, Harvard University Press

Joyce Lee Malcolm

#Historical Quotes #Bears Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.”
“In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.”
“What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles.”
“Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.”
“You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.”
“When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.”
“HOMÅ’OPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.”
“I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.”

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