#militia

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. ↗

— George Mason

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By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry. ↗

— James Monroe

#cavalry #department #estimated #force #infantry

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. ↗

— John Adams

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Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#pacifism #preparedness #guns

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. ↗

— James Madison

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The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#appoint #bring #council #country #disarm

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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[The militia experts] accuse antigoverment agitants of paranoia, yet they spin around and claim that militias speak in coded phrases, have underground bunkers, and are secretly conspiring to take over the world and enslave minorities. They say it`s lunacy that men at the pentagon can conspire, yet they`re certain that farmers out on the plain are plotting as we speak. They depict the United Nations as weak und ineffectual, yet they portray raggedy-ass backwoodsmen as the world`s biggest organized military threat. ↗

— Jim Goad

#conspiracy #domestic-terrorism #militia #militia-experts #millitias

Hizbullah is not a militia. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad