“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
