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"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands]."

by:	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source:	Proposed Virginia Constituion, Ford Ed, ii, 27. Ref: Jefferson Cycolpedia, pg 51 (1900) http://books.google.com/books?id=ZTIoAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA141&ots=v9ldi_dcN3&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q=&f=true
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Categories:	America, Arms, Civil Rights, Disarmament, Freedom, Government, Guns, Individual Rights, Liberty, President, Terrorism, Tyranny, Usurpation
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Freemen own arms, slaves don't. -- J Carlton, Calgary
If the nut cases in the Brady bunch and Obama have their way, the people in the U.S. will be disarmed. -- jim k, Austin, Tx
Mike, your comment in yesterdays quotes about democracy being two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner was really good. Sorry that I didn't have a chance to reply yesterday. -- jim k, Austin, Tx
We hold this truth to be absolute, and self evident. Only slaves and otherwise mentally / morally deficient patrons of the statist theocracy would disagree. -- Mike, Norwalk
A self-evident truth indeed. -- E Archer, NYC

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