"What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."

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Source : House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.

Elbridge Gerry

#Freedom Quotes #Mean Quotes #Army Quotes

“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”

Source : "Trinummus". Play by Plautus, Act II, sc. 2, line 88,
“To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.”
“Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.”

Source : Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.707, Faber & Faber
“Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
“A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.”
“I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.”
“I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.”
“To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.”

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