“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”
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Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
