"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing 
degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own 
defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our 
own possession and under our own direction, and having them under 
the management of Congress? If our defence 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?"
-- Patrick Henry
(1736-1799)
Source: June 9, 1788, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution,
in_Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,_
Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.168 (Philadelphia, 1836)
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