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Quote from Thomas Jefferson,


"What country can preserve its liberties,
if its rulers are not warned from time to time that
this people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms."


By:

Thomas Jefferson (more quotes by Thomas Jefferson or books by/about Thomas Jefferson)


(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Source:

November 13, 1787, letter to William S. Smith, quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy, ed., 1939

Categories:

Arms, Courage, Defense, Disarmament, Dissent, Guns, Militia, Power, President, Resistance, Responsibility, Revolution, Tyranny, Victory, War

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