"No free government was ever founded or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state.... Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the  freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen."
By:  | State Gazette (Charleston) (more quotes by State Gazette (Charleston) or books by/about State Gazette (Charleston))  | 
Categories:  | Militia, Arms, Guns, Property, Character  | 
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