Guard with jealous attention ...

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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 Patrick Henry

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O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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