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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for. -- Patrick Henry
Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work. -- Harry Browne
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate. -- Ted Nugent
The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in line within the bounds of the Constitution. The Founding Fathers said that armed citizens are a bulwark against a tyrant in the White House. -- John Coleman
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage. -- Joel Barlow
It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny. -- Joyce Lee Malcolm
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. -- Rick Perry
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -- James Madison
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed. -- Karl Marx

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