"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."
Quote by:
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) US Founding Father, governor of Viginia
Source:
in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution, June 14, 1788,
in_Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,_
Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.386 (Philadelphia, 1836)
