I like this quote as well.

[HaMeR]

This may have been here already. I don't know.

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."


--George Washington

[coyote101]

Our founding fathers were brilliant men with a healthy fear of a large standing army and of the very government they were forming. I guess they just had a good understanding of human nature.

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." - Patrick Henry