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The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. James Shirley		Saturday Apr 26, 2025
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What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. Elbridge Gerry

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	Elbridge Gerry
	1789, Floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress 750.

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What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.