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Quote from Edmund Randolph,


"A people who mean to continue free must be prepared to meet danger in person; not rely upon the fallacious protection of mercenary armies."


By:

Edmund Randolph (more quotes by Edmund Randolph or books by/about Edmund Randolph)


(1753-1813) Virginia delegate at the US Constitutional Convention, 1787

Source:

January 9, 1800, Annals of the Congress of the United States, p297
https://books.google.ca/books?id=RkZCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA297#v=onepage

Categories:

Defense, Freedom, Military, Responsibility, Self-Determination

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