"Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers."

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Source : "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution", vol. 3, edited by Jonathan Elliot, 1974.

George Mason

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Second Amendment Quotes

“So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.”

Source : George Canning (1854). “Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies, and jeux-d'esprit of George Canning ...”, p.137
“It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.”
“That's always good when you can bring out two sets of fans and supporters and then kinda cross them in between.”

Source : Source: respect-mag.com
“It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.”

Source : Josephine Tey (1952). “The singing sands”, Vintage
“[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.”
“You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.”
“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
“it's amazing what you can get used to.”

Source : "MI6 and ministers urged to use social networks" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

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