George Mason Quotes
...the people have a right to keep and bear arms. -- Patrick Henry and George Mason, Elliot, Debates at 185.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials. -- 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426.
An instance within the memory of some of this house will show us how our militia may be destroyed. Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliment was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that is was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia. -- At the Virginia Ratification Convention, June 14, 1788
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