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The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
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The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.
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If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.
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Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.
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First, the Constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments in the community to be avoided.
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You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever ...
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the pasty. Let us not, I beseech you, deceive ourselves longer. We have done everything that could he done to avert the storm, which is now coming on. If we wish to be free we must fight, I repeat, we must fight.
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Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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