Richard Henry Lee

Quotes

• “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...”
• “No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state...such are well-regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.”

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