5 Quotes by Patrick Henry about gun

  • Author Patrick Henry
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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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  • Author Patrick Henry
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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?

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    This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

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    They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?

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