"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe."
— Firearm

January 1, 1970

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Noah Webster, Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (1787) in Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, Paul Leicester Ford (1888), p. 56.