Patrick Henry Quote

Quote from Patrick Henry,

"Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"

By:	Patrick Henry (more quotes by Patrick Henry or books by/about Patrick Henry)
	(1736-1799) US Founding Father
Source:	[3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836]
Categories:	Arms, Congress, Guns, Militia, Trust
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