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Quote from Patrick Henry,


"The great object is that every man be armed.
Everyone who is able may have a gun."


By:

Patrick Henry (more quotes by Patrick Henry or books by/about Patrick Henry)


(1736-1799) US Founding Father

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)

Categories:

Arms, Constitution, Defense, Disarmament, Freedom, Guns, Liberty, Militia, Security

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