Founding Fathers

Some Guns Quotes from Founding Fathers. Some Guns Quotes from Founding Fathers. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni

🗒️ Note:
Some of these quotes are in dispute, or not by the authors. (Click in for more). However, they were believed to be because it fit their rhetoric and beliefs, which is kinda the point.

Those that claim the Founding Fathers would have opposed modern weapons are either hyper-partisan (biased), or they are profoundly ignorant on the Founding Fathers. You can disagree with their 18th century view of the world all you want, but even a cursory understanding of their views is that they felt the biggest threat to freedom and property was the government: based on their life's experiences of just having to risk everything to revolt against the British Empire.

❝ The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good". ❞ ~ George Washington (Paraphrased) ℹ️ C.S. Wheatley (1926)

❝ A free people ought to be armed. ❞ ~ George Washington ℹ️ First Annual Message given to Congress on January 8, 1790

❝ Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. ❞ ~ Patrick Henry ℹ️ Speech - 05.06.1788

❝ As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only] moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion to your walks. ❞ ~ Thomas Jefferson ℹ️ writing to his teenaged nephew (Peter Carr)

❝ Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self-defense. ❞ ~ John Adams ℹ️ Defense of Constitutions of USA p. 471 (1788)

❝ Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. ❞ ~ Benjamin Franklin (Paraphrased) ℹ️ Letter to to Jane Mecom, 01.11.1773

❝ Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ❞ ~ Benjamin Franklin ℹ️ Multiple citations

❝ Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are liberty’s teeth. ❞ ~ George Washington (Paraphrased) ℹ️ C.S. Wheatley (1926)

❝ I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials. ❞ ~ George Mason ℹ️ 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426

❝ Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ❞ ~ William Pitt ℹ️ House of Commons, 18.11.1783

❝ No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government ❞ ~ Thomas Jefferson ℹ️ Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

❝ The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. ❞ ~ Alexander Hamilton ℹ️ The Federalist Papers at 184-188

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